@howrar
@loudWaterEnjoyer
Ya lol piracy communities famously never discuss anything that isnt piracy. Like how every music tracker forum has the vanity label category with independent musicians with bandcamp links or like
https://torrentfreak.com/?s=spotify

@shalafi
Its a beautiful dream, but youre missing the part where copyright holders refuse to rent you distribution rights :(

@HamSwagwich
Lol sure bro 👍 have a good night.

@HughJanus
@cupcakezealot
this is not how compensation for writers works, generally, and also the whole idea is to break a traditional publishing system that exploits writers in favor of one where people directly pay the authors.

@agentshags
@collegefurtrader
bring back Warez ANSI art packs, memes over BBS

@edsu
it seems like it just uses the API???? idk readme says they have moved on to another project that I can't find the sources for, the gitlab just has the APKs. but if it's just as simple as using the API I would be freaking stunned there wasn't more widespread abuse of it.
@piracy

@bilb
@Mugmoor
that's fair. I think they are approaching it as archivists rather than as gamers - preserving cuktur artifacts regardless if they're good or not

@GreenCrush
I read it as them saying it's a good thing and sort of tiptoeing around piracy, as academics do

@FederalAlienSmuggler
@whatsarefoogee
back in my day "pay the artists, fuck the platforms" was the motto

@FederalAlienSmuggler
@whatsarefoogee
what forum do you think you are posting on lmao

@sunbrothersco
this rocks

@sunbrothersco
testing if this federates