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Do people pirate music anymore?
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Strangelove77
Member
Always.
tearsintherain
Member
with podcasts I find myself rarely listening to music anymore when I am out and about, I have like 12 gigs of podcast backlog to always listen to at gym, walking, outside, whatever.
when I do want to listen to music its almost always late at night, at home, and I just turn on youtube and leech off someone's playlist.
when I do want to listen to music its almost always late at night, at home, and I just turn on youtube and leech off someone's playlist.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I see people say it's more a hassle to pirate but what in the world were you doing before? Back in high school I would just use RSS subscriptions to automatically download the latest leaks. Like I would get home from school and it was all just there. Then I'd burn CDs/DVDs to sell in school. It was in a time few people had DVD burners so I was making bank.
DiamondDog74
Banned
Yep. Although it's strange that Pink Floyd didn't have any content streaming and now apparently everything is up there. Good because I was going to say that some artists aren't
Wag
Member
I do for the most part, but I like the blues so every so often I have to buy something that's not on Spotify. What I like isn't popular enough to pirate.
Not everything is available streaming or available to purchase anymore. See the What.CD was shut down thread.
There's thousands upon thousands of albums that'll never see reissues or represses, lost to the ether for years until these share sites resurfaced a lot of them.
I also own close to a thousand records, 500+ cd's and regularly purchase music on iTunes/bandcamp. I get my music by any means necessary.
There's thousands upon thousands of albums that'll never see reissues or represses, lost to the ether for years until these share sites resurfaced a lot of them.
I also own close to a thousand records, 500+ cd's and regularly purchase music on iTunes/bandcamp. I get my music by any means necessary.
$8 a month, no ads on YT and all music including 40k of my own uploads.
Its officially not worth the bother anymore. When a new album drops you would have to go to a torrent site, find a link, click it, wait to download and then put it in whatever cloud service you use. The time you would spend on that in a year is just not a good tradeoff. The 8 bucks a month is better because its just automatic.
If a new song is out I just put in the name and play the shit. It took them a while, but music labels and online companies finally got it right.
Its officially not worth the bother anymore. When a new album drops you would have to go to a torrent site, find a link, click it, wait to download and then put it in whatever cloud service you use. The time you would spend on that in a year is just not a good tradeoff. The 8 bucks a month is better because its just automatic.
If a new song is out I just put in the name and play the shit. It took them a while, but music labels and online companies finally got it right.
dead souls
Member
Just the Black Sails theme on an endless loop.
styl3s
Member
If i did pirate music which i totally did not i would have stopped when i started using Spotify Premium.
Way less people nowadays pirate music in comparison to a few years ago because Spotify and co. exist but it's kind of a double-edged sword because as a result people buy way, way less CDs than ever before as well.
Funnily enough the revenue for music artists probably hasn't changed much since then even if pirating music has calmed down.
Funnily enough the revenue for music artists probably hasn't changed much since then even if pirating music has calmed down.
Generalpsyduck
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slick7rick
Member
Honestly I stopped because music sucks nowadays. I used to buy every album, and download from artists I wanted to try before buying. Now I just use Pandora and Spotify for radio, and YouTube for mixtapes.
motherxwolf
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actually as of recently i noticed some stuff i listened to was being taken off spotify so i began buying music and ripping the lossless to my pc and putting them in my fiio player. i use spotify daily but i use it more as a test to see if i like an album and then i buy the album now, plus i enjoy the cd stack lol
SUPARSTARX
Member
I know someone out there likes to collect lossless/flac over streaming 320kbps music somewhere... 1
I'm sure most people can listen to the difference between 128-320kbps music files but what about 320kbps to lossless?
I just bought a few CDs from The 1975, Banks, and The XX. So I still collect physical CDs if I enjoy the music I've heard online. Spotify is ok but supposedly they don't even pay royalties out to the artists that well I read somewhere.
I'm sure most people can listen to the difference between 128-320kbps music files but what about 320kbps to lossless?
I just bought a few CDs from The 1975, Banks, and The XX. So I still collect physical CDs if I enjoy the music I've heard online. Spotify is ok but supposedly they don't even pay royalties out to the artists that well I read somewhere.
NoblesseOblige
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I actually bet more people pirate these days as Internet access continues to penetrate further into places like China. 10 years ago they were at <25%. These days >50%.
Doctoglethorpe
Member
Only thing reasonable to still be pirating is porn. Everything else is too accessible, no excuses.
Hurry up and make pornflix somebody plz. 360p just doesn't cut it.
Hurry up and make pornflix somebody plz. 360p just doesn't cut it.
That's a lot of work.
A new album comes out, I open the Google Music app. Type in the name of the album. Boom. Start playing within 5 seconds. I can beam it in the car, or cast it to speakers throughout my house.
There are other aspects of convenience as well. For example, I don't have to go on Google and search "songs for relaxing" and then sift through forum pages and then search for each individual song on Limewire, and then download each song, and make sure it's not loaded with viruses, and then transfer it onto all my devices and maybe burn it onto a CD for my car. The app creates recommended playlists for me.
RiccochetJ
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Maybe? Not sure. If it's not a part of my sub service, I'll go to youtube and sometimes there's a download link that accompanies the video. If malwarebytes and windows defender doesn't freak out, I'll download it and add it to my library to accompany my sub service and playlist.
Yeah sure. More talking about the modern western world, though.
$5 with Apple Music edu
starchild excalibur
Member
Sure people do. As cheap as the services are, not everyone wants to pay for Spotify/Apple Music/Google Music. Plus, depending on how obscure you're going with certain artists, not everything is on those services.
It's like asking if people still buy iPods: sure they do. But a lot more people probably stream.
It's like asking if people still buy iPods: sure they do. But a lot more people probably stream.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
It...it was 0 work other than the initial couple minute investment. Like a button press. And this is pre-Google Music. In fact Google didn't even own YouTube then. And I never used p2p services like Limewire after like 7th grade when I learned about torrenting.
Battlechili
Banned
It depends on how available something is. Owning music physically on CD is always the best way to go, but not everything good is sold anywhere, so some people may feel the need to pirate something if companies don't make an effort to make something easily available. Like, WHY ISN'T POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON MUSIC SOLD ANYWHERE
I WANT TO BUY THE SUPER MYSTERY DUNGEON OST DAMMIT. LET ME OWN THIS GLORIOUS MUSIC
I WANT TO BUY THE SUPER MYSTERY DUNGEON OST DAMMIT. LET ME OWN THIS GLORIOUS MUSIC
I'm not saying pirating music is equivalent to pulling teeth.
But even if you spent just one hour a month pirating and doing all the things associated with that (managing files, transferring and burning, etc) your time is probably worth more than $10/hour.
babyshaq90
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I used to not anymore though. It's become troublesome to go out of my way to get the content I want without possibly getting caught. I remember I got three emails for downloading stuff illegally within the span of two weeks. Rather use streaming services like Spotify and YouTube now even ifs it's a few bucks.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
It was a couple minutes setting it up. After that it was automatic. The files were all neatly organized per feed requirements. The burning stuff was only because CD players were still the most common way to carry your music when I was in high school. So I took advantage of that as a student looking to make easy and quick money. I was making way more than $10/hr. Hell, probably was making more than I do now. It actually paid for my first car. But it was illegal, and CDs are archaic now. So as an adult I wouldn't do it these days.
disappeared
Banned
Damn. Looking back I probably could have done that in high school. Props man haha
I like having a large collection of music that is really organized. A lot of the stuff I have is obscure video game/anime soundtracks and releases that are impossible to find without having to ask someone to upload it. Some of it took a lot of effort to find and that was part of the fun. It did take some experience knowing how to do things right, so I can see where some people say it's inconvenient.
I've learned to never bring up pirating stuff to my friends. As I feel it hurts their feelings after they pay for something that I got for nothing. I've never really felt bad about doing it, if only because I can put that money in to more important things. I do make bi-weekly purchases on soundcloud to support some artists I really like, so I guess I'm not completely evil.
I've learned to never bring up pirating stuff to my friends. As I feel it hurts their feelings after they pay for something that I got for nothing. I've never really felt bad about doing it, if only because I can put that money in to more important things. I do make bi-weekly purchases on soundcloud to support some artists I really like, so I guess I'm not completely evil.
Shpeshal Nick
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Like what Netflix has done for movie and TV piracy, Spotify/Apple Music has done for Music piracy.
Does it still exist? Of course, but I'd say it's mostly limited to the hardcore guys. The mom and pop music consumer these days just would go for Spotify or Apple music.
Does it still exist? Of course, but I'd say it's mostly limited to the hardcore guys. The mom and pop music consumer these days just would go for Spotify or Apple music.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Porn was the big money maker. I used to sell DVDs of it to my uncles...
nabe_shogun
Member
I used to all the time when I was in junior high, but that was because I was in junior high and had no money. Once I could actually buy the albums I wanted, I just did that and never really bothered pirating music anymore.
This was however before streaming was a big thing, as I got my first job in 2005. I have been using Pandora since like 2006, but whenever I hear something I really like, I just buy the physical album. I also just like having physical media.
This was however before streaming was a big thing, as I got my first job in 2005. I have been using Pandora since like 2006, but whenever I hear something I really like, I just buy the physical album. I also just like having physical media.
brickarts295
Member
I think I'm doing it. I pretty much download Youtube MP3's (mostly because they remove listening in the background on phones). The quality doesn't really bother me. I do use Spotify for soundtracks once in a while.
Hyrule Warrior
Member
I typically discover and hear new music on youtube. That's how I discovered my favorite J-pop queens Perfume, and when I like a group's music enough, I buy it on vinyl.
HideyoshiJP
Member
I haven't since I started making enough to buy whatever music I wanted. I also use Spotify to fill in that gap of music I kind of want to hear but will never buy.
I would pirate something I couldn't acquire via legal means, though. You'll also have to pirate my previously pirated tracks from me cold dead hooks.
I would pirate something I couldn't acquire via legal means, though. You'll also have to pirate my previously pirated tracks from me cold dead hooks.
I still do, but that's because some of the music in question is usually impossible to buy in a store anymore (see: old, rare CDs that people are charging 400 dollars for online.)
Some people like to hoard old game soundtracks without actually ripping them and inflate their price, and there's no 'original quality' or even 320kbps available online, so sometimes I'll bite the bullet and either look for an owner with the CD in his collection on VGMDB and beg him to rip the CD for me, or just buy the CD myself and rip it for others to enjoy.
Otherwise, the advent of Bandcamp has made things nice and easy to buy regular music for me. I bought most of NxxxxxS' discography off of there.
Some people like to hoard old game soundtracks without actually ripping them and inflate their price, and there's no 'original quality' or even 320kbps available online, so sometimes I'll bite the bullet and either look for an owner with the CD in his collection on VGMDB and beg him to rip the CD for me, or just buy the CD myself and rip it for others to enjoy.
Otherwise, the advent of Bandcamp has made things nice and easy to buy regular music for me. I bought most of NxxxxxS' discography off of there.
I used to when I was a kid, but since I started working, Steam and iTunes were just too convenient that I haven't had a torrent client installed since the past few years.
But sometimes I have no choice when something is offered only in a CD form that is a pain to import... so I download but 'make it up' by buying another track from iTunes lol. :X
But sometimes I have no choice when something is offered only in a CD form that is a pain to import... so I download but 'make it up' by buying another track from iTunes lol. :X
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