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 The real losers of streaming services are //artists//, especially music artists on Spotify who have been getting scammed out of their plays per months revenue ever since Spotify launched, because Spotify is a top-heavy platform that rewards already big creators and punishes smaller ones (sounds like capitalism to me). Ask a local musician from your hometown what they think about Spotify, and you will see that they have not a single good word to say about it. But even large creators, say in the movies and shows industry, get pitied with minimal returns from their licensed plays on Netflix and such. That's why I said in the beginning of the page that streaming services were good for the corpo and the user, because who's really getting fucked over here are the people actually creating the content we consume.
-The phrase "If Buying isn't Owning, then Pirating isn't Stealing" may look smart, it uses the trappings of morality to disguise itself as something insightful, even though in reality it just completely misses the mark and says nothing of value whatsoever, because it misunderstands the moral status quo. Pirating has never been inherently bad, even during times where buying still meant that you actually owned things. Whether the concept of "ownership" is reconcilable with morality in the first place is another topic, but for now I will just say that this mantra just has nothing to do with the topic we are actually talking about and, even if it had, it tries to argue from the wrong angle. Piracy wasn't immoral //before//, and corpos changing their tactics doesn't make it any more or less immoral //now//. <wrap lo>This is not legal advice. It's philosophical advice at best.</wrap>
+The phrase "If Buying isn't Owning, then Pirating isn't Stealing" may look smart, it uses the trappings of morality to disguise itself as something insightful, even though in reality it just completely misses the mark and says nothing of value whatsoever, because it misunderstands the moral status quo. Pirating has never been inherently bad, even during times where buying still meant that you actually owned things. Whether the concept of "ownership" is reconcilable with morality in the first place is another topic, but for now I will just say that this mantra just has nothing to do with the topic we are actually talking about and, even if it had, it tries to argue from the wrong angle. Piracy wasn't immoral //before//, and corpos changing their tactics doesn't make it any more or less immoral //now//. <wrap lo>This is not legal advice. It's, at best, philosophical advice.</wrap>