The Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in a ruling won by UMG, Sony Music Entertainment, and more, which forces an ISP to terminate customers for piracy.
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I’ve not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.
Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.
Audiophiles like me listen to local .flac files through external DAC’s for better sound. And I’m not a hipster. Also lots of music I like isn’t even on streaming.
I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.
Never heard of foobar, and honestly surprised it doesn’t have a linux version. It has a windows phone version, but NOT linux.
I know I shit on linux a lot on this site for having a small userbase, but COME ON!!! You make a windows phone version but NOT a linux version??? At least linux has something like 5% of the pc market userbase. And while that may be mockingly small, windows phone probably only ever had 5 users total!
You know it’s bad when I’M the one insulting a program for not having a native linux port.
For you and anyone else curious to find something similar to Foobar2k on Linux, there’s DeaDBeeF. I used to use it way back before I switched to ncmpcpp
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I’ve not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
Music piracy isn’t rampant at all. It’s the “immigrant crime is out of control” of the internet.
If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.
Hell I still sometimes find those old “lyrics” videos. Remember those? They all had that bluish teal background? Some of them survive to this day.
And download all the music you want without an account using yt-dlp.
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It’s honestly easier than torrents.
It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.
Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.
Audiophiles like me listen to local .flac files through external DAC’s for better sound. And I’m not a hipster. Also lots of music I like isn’t even on streaming.
I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.
Never heard of foobar, and honestly surprised it doesn’t have a linux version. It has a windows phone version, but NOT linux.
I know I shit on linux a lot on this site for having a small userbase, but COME ON!!! You make a windows phone version but NOT a linux version??? At least linux has something like 5% of the pc market userbase. And while that may be mockingly small, windows phone probably only ever had 5 users total!
You know it’s bad when I’M the one insulting a program for not having a native linux port.
For you and anyone else curious to find something similar to Foobar2k on Linux, there’s DeaDBeeF. I used to use it way back before I switched to ncmpcpp
Most personal computers run Linux.
Because most personal computers are phones.