irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 days agoLaws only matter if you're not rich.s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.comimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up11.72Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.71Karrow-down1imageLaws only matter if you're not rich.s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.comirelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·4 days agoSpotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.
minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 days agoThat feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.
minus-square3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoand youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.
Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.
That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.
and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.
and crunchyroll