Music Piracy & CD’s Making A Comeback According To The RIAA

[David_TheMan]

Too many mp3 rip sites plus you can rip music off YouTube

Most of you people are idiots who love streaming. I have no pity for you.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

Piracy definitely is in general due to the perpetual increase in the cost of streaming services and frustration over ever changing platforms and access to media.

Physical media is having a big resurgence because of improved quality and moreso, the same thing as above and the juggling of films and shows on platforms. And, criterion collection and reference quality 4ks.

Music wise, I haven't seen a CD in years, and don't really buy that, but for movies, sports, tv, absolutely. Pirates up rn.

This and in conjunction with we don’t own the music anymore. If someone loses a contract due to rights or shyt negotiations, you won’t be able to have access to that music anymore. shytty system by design unfortunately.

 

[Barney Rubble]

When they started fukking with albums, changing samples, removing songs, etc. I went back to downloading. If Ready to Die isn't sacred, nothing is.

 

[Deltron]

When they started fukking with albums, changing samples, removing songs, etc. I went back to downloading. If Ready to Die isn't sacred, nothing is.

Definitely.

Or theyll just take shyt off services

 

[Reality Check]

MP3 Gang still isn’t taking losses

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

I knew this by the amount of underground rappers making a living off selling cds, cassette tapes, and vinyls on Bandcamp and at their shows.

Bootleg vinyl is crazy though, Griselda really made a market for the record scammers

 

[IllmaticDelta]

it never left

 

[FlimFlam]

When they started fukking with albums, changing samples, removing songs, etc. I went back to downloading. If Ready to Die isn't sacred, nothing is.

My concern with this practice leans heavily into books and other published works

This society is already anti-history ( has been well before trump.... even MLK spoke on it)

Digital curation of archives has the potential to get the the Burning of Library of Alexandria level of catastrophe... its that serious

I dont know where , but i once heard that every black household should have an archive of all sorts of physical black media. Texts arts etc. Thats the realist shyt ever

 

[KFBF]

Been debating buying one of those 3tb ipods. Spotify is a fukking racket.

 

[The Eliminator]

People want to listen stuff in its original form and to not be subjected to a service's whims of removing shyt at any given time

 

[hex]

Told people this back in 2018:

I get sent free music damn near daily....more music than I can listen to. The bootlegging community is alive and well.

It's already on my phone, what I like I keep. If I really like it, I might go cop it from Itunes.

Around once a month I back up the music on my phone to a hard drive.

My process has the exact same number of steps as streaming....except I actually own something in the end. Pay money to not own something, brehs.

The shyt is not nearly as complicated or time consuming as this thread makes it seem. Thread full of people bragging about renting music....and mocking people that ain't with it. shyt is wild to me. The industry really did a number on people.

Fred.

The streaming thing was always hilarious to me because people have spent the last 30+ years hearing and/or promoting warnings about how corrupt and mercenary the record industry is....then those same people turned around and put their entire music catalog in the hands of those very same people to edit, erase, or manipulate as they see fit.

Fred.

 

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

There’s still cd players?

 

[satam55]

Piracy definitely is in general due to the perpetual increase in the cost of streaming services and frustration over ever changing platforms and access to media.

Physical media is having a big resurgence because of improved quality and moreso, the same thing as above and the juggling of films and shows on platforms. And, criterion collection and reference quality 4ks.

Music wise, I haven't seen a CD in years, and don't really buy that, but for movies, sports, tv, absolutely. Pirates up rn.

Times are hard
Streaming platforms constantly taxing
Artists get ripped off

I find it hard to believe when YouTube Music, regular YouTube, Spotify & even Amazon Music have free tiers.

 

[satam55]

Where do you even go to pirate songs anymore? And where do you even put then to listen to them?

Why would I want to go back to the days of downloading a song, hooking my mp3 to the computer and dragging and dropping songs when I can just go to a streaming service or YouTube and listen? Just seems like some nostalgia bait.

I usually share this info on JBO:

Spoiler

https://fmhy.net/audio#audio-ripping

 

[Roxx the King]

Where do you even go to pirate songs anymore? And where do you even put then to listen to them?

Why would I want to go back to the days of downloading a song, hooking my mp3 to the computer and dragging and dropping songs when I can just go to a streaming service or YouTube and listen? Just seems like some nostalgia bait.

You got that streaming slave as your Avi so of course you don’t get it

Drake was the “white avatar” for streaming services

Disgust that you can be on this particular board and thumb your nose at pirating music

You clearly don’t know nothing about the Big Business era