Using the "frog in boiling water" technique

WeebLife@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 264 points –

This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer's income actually goes to the artists.

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I'm still trying to buy physical CDs. It is getting more difficult, but they're still around.

This shitshow will only get worse, NOT better.

Yep, if you buy the music you actually like, yeah that CD you bought at FYE in 2013 was $12, but that's $12 literally 10 years ago, water under the bridge, and you can still use it however you want to use it.

Meawhile Deezer nuts is making you pay for a CD-worth of content every month. That's 12 CDs a year.

Now That's What I Call a LOT of Music.

So I pay a CD worth of music but can listen to every new album I want every month? How's that expensive?

And that is why I pay for things I actually use. And suggest other people do as well. I pirate the stuff that is being removed or I know I can watch free with garbage ads or if I went to goodwill with a dollar but still pay for my music and YouTube. I'll get a lot out of my hundred bucks I give them a year and my artists know I appreciate them.

People are really used to free. They forget even their servers have costs even. Piracy should be a hobby or used when you don't have the means because of circumstances beyond your control. Bit an entire fuck everything personality.

Yeah, and I'm not against piracy by any means, I pirate every movie I watch despite having Netflix, Disney+, Star+, HBO Max and sometimes Prime. We have all of those because it's easier for my parents but God, Stremio is a lot better than having to find out which platform has the movie I want, and sometimes there's no alternative other than piracy.

As Gabel said, piracy is a service problem, and I think that music streaming services are great and at a fair price, so I don't see the need for pirating music as long as you can afford it.

This is my main approach to media. Instead of spending money every month on streaming services, I buy the media I care about. If I have to buy it on Amazon, then I pirate my own copy.

You can just burn CDs if there is no offiical one.

Are CDs not available for some artists/albums you want?

Most often I'm finding a silly high price. Like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Results-Misspent-Youth-Blackhearts/dp/B000NNUX2E/ref=sr\_1\_9?keywords=joan+jett+cd

Bro WHAT?! $50 for a damn CD? You can still buy packs of like 20 *blank CDs for like $10, right?

Edit: I do mean blanks.

CDs have been making a slow comeback for the past year or two, and global CD sales actually went up last year for the first time in over a decade. If it's anything like the vinyl or cassette resurgence, I imagine it won't be too difficult to find places that sell CDs in a few years.

Let us not forget how these same publishers used to price gouge us on these CDs before we had any legitimate alternatives. In the '90s, they'd charge $20-$25 for an album with 10 songs on it, most of them filler. With inflation, that'd be equivalent to $40-$50 today.