people are saying they're pirating music, which is interesting to me because i don't exactly know how that works.
from my experience knowing how people pirate movies, that's like...going somewhere that the movie is hosted externally from someone who recorded it, and watching it there, instead of paying the money for a streaming service or tickets to see a movie.
that feels more like pirating...because there's a risk. recording a whole ass movie--heck, even getting the file or leak or whatever, is a difficult and obviously hard thing to do, because it's illegal! because you have to pay every time you watch a movie, unless you buy a dvd or something.
but... i don't know of any music pirating websites, like they have for movies. the only way i know of downloading is the way you download stuff off of youtube.
& i feel like downloading off of youtube or something isn't pirating...is it? do people actually consider pirating music as searching it up on youtube, copying the link, and pasting it into, like...ytmp3?
please let me know because i would figure the process would be just as excruciating (in comparison to just getting a dvd and throwing it in the dvd player) as pirating a movie. but is it that simple for movies?
in that case i'd think pirating an absolutely disgusting artists' music wouldn't be that large of a sacrifice for whoever wanted to listen to them without directly supporting them.
if it's that easy--you just download it to listen to it offline--how is that any risk to you?
streaming services like spotify advertise you to pay for spotify premium in order to download songs. isn't giving an artist one hit on youtube so you can loop their song a bunch of times from your files the same thing? how is that in any way able to justify their actions or your continued enjoyment of their art, created by the kind of person who would do such disgusting things?
i'm not interested in having discourse about separating the art from the artist, so my apologies for going into that topic. my point here is, what actually is pirating in terms of music and how does it excuse the actions of the person you're pirating from, if they're a disgusting person?
(i only specifically mention disgusting people bc most of the time ppl only pirate artists they don't want to directly support. which, y'know....you don't want to support disgusting people.)
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Keithinnie
music piracy in its illegality is sharing, downloading and sales of unauthorised music.
basically downloading and uploading someone else's song without consent is illegal, and listening/downloading (the illegal version) is piracy.
disgusting people can still make good music, and some people are gonna like said music. listening to the artist on spotify or such is giving them money and directly funding them, and is a show of support.
Pirating music is basically "this is good music but you suck f/ck u" and then in a way 'steal' their art.
not sure if i understood this correctly but lol!
blvkmoon
pirating stuff can also be just to show a middle finger to big corporations who want to own the rights to everything
"you will own nothing and be happy" so if you won't own nothing, then what's the point in spending money for things that you don't even own, so just pirate it
nobody says that it's wrong to not obey the big bad guys of this world
victorisavampire
for me pirating is like how you said it at the start. Just going onto a site which has free movies or going into a Google drive and watching it there, or downloading the media off of one of those things to have on your own device.
I guess pirating music would just be doing the same thing, but off of youtube by third-party downloading sites. I’ve done that before too (downloading music from YouTube and putting it onto my mp3 player). Since you’re not paying to be ALLOWED to download it, it’s piracy.
Ive never really felt like I was going to get caught or that I was at risk, I think it’s moreso the sites themselves that let you do those things that are at risk of getting shut down.
I don’t think that pirating music and media in general ‘excuses’ an artists actions as much as it makes the consumption of the art they made ethical, since you’re not giving them money if you pirated them