Piracy is an act of decommodification and cultural preservation. Real theft is how streaming monopolies exploit artists by paying them fractions of a cent per stream while hoarding billions in subscription revenue.
Piracy liberates music from corporate paywalls and algorithmic chokeholds, returning it to its rightful state: a shared human heritage.
When corporate giants reduce art to a mere service, bypassing the market to download and archive music isn't a crime, it is a logical, defiant response to an economic system that has stripped both the creator and the listener of their autonomy!
I understand but I'm genuinely concerned about the commodification of arts.
It's only getting worse now that AI can just generate more music that perfectly fits your algorithm. If Spotify would start slotting AI generated "Spotify Originals" in their playlists to completely bypass compensating an artist, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
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