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  • For the record, I support piracy and don’t mind that people listen to my music for free. I don’t like other companies making money off it though. They didn’t make it, they don’t get to use it to make money.

    Its not so much the money I’m not making, it’s the theft of hard work artists put in and corporations profit off of that makes me upset.

    In 2019 the only way to reach people was Spotify. It’s still kinda the biggest game in town. It’s slowly changing but the business and ideas of digital ownership of rights were different 7 years ago.


  • I’m an artist with music on Spotify. I honestly don’t know how I feel about this.

    I know Metallica got a lot of shit about Napster back in the day, but I can’t help but feel like they were right. They were (by my recollection) trying to ensure artists still have a claim to their body of work. I know the industry has come so far since then, but it feels like the moment everything started to slowly become “content” and not art.

    I just want real people to actually enjoy my music. I don’t expect to make a living or even real money off my music, but I also don’t like someone else making money off my art and using it to train AI models.

    I made something meaningful, no one else gets to decide that they wanna commodify it or use it to make slop.




  • gointhefridge@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldQuestion on TV's
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    2 months ago

    Most people will recommend avoiding any “smart” features on the TVs sets and say buy a monitor cause they have no smart features. Rightfully so, TVs can be privacy nightmares potentially.

    That said I have recommendations for both:

    Midrange TV pick: LG 48B5 - $529 at Best Buy

    Fancy smaller Monitor Asus ROG Swift 32 OLED Monitor

    Premium TV LG C5 (Available in 42, 48, 55, 65, 77, and 83 inch)

    Ultra Premium LG G5 (Available in 55, 65, 77, and 83 inch)

    Budget TV TCL QM7K

    Budget Monitor Samsung G5 series

    Pound for pound dollar for dollar LG makes the best OLEDs and overall TVs. Sony is good but not worth the premium anymore.