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bambax ◴[31 Aug 25 07:27 UTC] No.45081136[source]▶

One answer to this madness is to starve the beast: never buy any music or any content from an established company. Torrent everything. It may not work at all, but at least you can tell yourself you're not helping the bastards.

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neilv ◴[31 Aug 25 09:17 UTC] No.45081742[source]▶

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We're partly in this police state mess of legislation and user-hostile technology because of the history of piracy.

Piracy isn't going to starve the bastards. Piracy is helping the bastards, by giving them reason or pretext.

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1. realusername ◴[31 Aug 25 12:09 UTC] No.45082561[source]▶

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For a very long time, piracy was the only way to get media online because the conglomerates refused to sell music and movies online.

We didn't get there because of piracy.

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Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes