When you really look into it, piracy is often more ethical than streaming. Like, every time you listen to music on Spotify, the artists only really make a fraction of a penny per stream, and the majority of your subscription goes to Spotify CEO David Ek, who’s using your subscriptions to fund AI for military drones.
But piracy doesn’t help the artist at all. It’s better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn’t suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it’s a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.
Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that
Hence artists shouldn’t really expect much money in the covid era unless they’re individually big enough to sell a lot of merch or collectively strong enough in business negotiations to stop taking such tiny percentages of corporate revenue
I’m not saying to only buy music. Concerts are amazing and I love to promote my favorite artists with merch. So do that, plus buy their music instead of pirating.
Also video games should be pirated, the non-indie games I mean. What a load of junk are games these days. They don’t deserve our money. Indie game devs however, do deserve our money. Provide quality and I happily pay for it. Provide junk and I’ll steal it gladly, only to be disappointed anyway.
A few weeks ago I pirated the latest Hitman game. I liked it, so I wanted to buy it. When I opened the game, it was just an empty shell. I needed to purchase all the DLC’s too, to get what I pirated before. So I refunded the game, fuck them.
Yeah, I’m sure they gladly share their address with anyone haha. But donating can go through other platforms too. Or just buy the high bitrate music directly from them. You get the best quality, they get a fair price.
When you really look into it, piracy is often more ethical than streaming. Like, every time you listen to music on Spotify, the artists only really make a fraction of a penny per stream, and the majority of your subscription goes to Spotify CEO David Ek, who’s using your subscriptions to fund AI for military drones.
But piracy doesn’t help the artist at all. It’s better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn’t suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it’s a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.
Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that
bandcamp is 15% still, though that’s relatively pretty good
Concerts and merch is what artists keep the most money from
Hence artists shouldn’t really expect much money in the covid era unless they’re individually big enough to sell a lot of merch or collectively strong enough in business negotiations to stop taking such tiny percentages of corporate revenue
I’m not saying to only buy music. Concerts are amazing and I love to promote my favorite artists with merch. So do that, plus buy their music instead of pirating.
Also video games should be pirated, the non-indie games I mean. What a load of junk are games these days. They don’t deserve our money. Indie game devs however, do deserve our money. Provide quality and I happily pay for it. Provide junk and I’ll steal it gladly, only to be disappointed anyway.
A few weeks ago I pirated the latest Hitman game. I liked it, so I wanted to buy it. When I opened the game, it was just an empty shell. I needed to purchase all the DLC’s too, to get what I pirated before. So I refunded the game, fuck them.
The most ethical thing to do is just to send an artist $5 or something in an envelope if you pirate their music
Yeah, I’m sure they gladly share their address with anyone haha. But donating can go through other platforms too. Or just buy the high bitrate music directly from them. You get the best quality, they get a fair price.
Exactly, save your money and go to a concert or buy a T-shirt direct from the band.