If you don’t own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.
If media companies make it impossible to buy and own content, then pirating is not unethical.
I feel like the whole Spotify thing was a misstep, I really dont know what to make of the whole thing
They poked the Beast. I admire their moxy, and I hope they survive.
Nah. It was great and we should see more of it.
Stop being afraid to fight because your enemies might fight back.
I left spotify behind
I never jumped on board with it. But people use it and it’s news.
The people running Anna’s Archive should’ve really known better. At one hand, I’m appreciative for what they attempted to do. But on the other hand, they’ve really painted a big target on their backs by scraping on Spotify. Now they have the RIAA legion sickened on them and they’re probably now going to get nuked by lawsuits and appeals. So, in a sense, Anna’s Archive kinda went and blew themselves up, screwing people out of a good source.
Told you
We need to move away from the DNS as quickly as possible.
It’s just another tool of control.
I cannot fathom why they would go this route after Archive.org was targetted and so thoroughly lost. They could have hosted it on a different site.
