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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.
Well, Foobar is ancient software and barely has any developers. It’s intended to be a WinAmp clone. I’m sure there’s an equivalent piece of Linux software that does something similar.
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.
@moe90 Such a relief knowing that they'll finally take action. I already know someone who does this quite a lot.
People wouldn't pirate your shit if it was easily and cheaply available
Japanese corporate culture is fucking terrible. I don't understand how anyone can support these gaming companies.
Edit: Gaming/Entertainment
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
Japanese corporate culture is atrocious ≠ American corporate culture isn't atrocious
Both need some major reforms in order to be just non-awful, let alone acceptable.
My point is more that what they wrote didn't make sense talking about Japanese corporations when more American companies are listed. The entertainment industry is simply awful, nationalities aside.
Pretty sure sony is Japanese.
Sony Music (the company involved in this lawsuit) is an American subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, a division of Sony Corporation of America.
Read the first sentence of the article
Emigrating to internet friendly country is something I'd do in a week. I guess sharing someone else's internet, or account identity is an option.
