Jerkface (any/all)

Necessary but not sufficient.

You suppose they’re doing it out of love of the game?

Oops, my information was out of date: elsewhere in this thread

I love your avi/handle combo

The available evidence says otherwise. You really got your ego wrapped up in this somehow. Which is WEIRD.

I’m subscribed to various music producers on YouTube

So you DO enjoy streaming music…

Even while you are being careful, you are still reading things in. He didn’t say he listens to music on YouTube. It might be a safe assumption but that isn’t what was stated. If you’re going to be pedantic, do it right.

You could still do that without paying Spotify. Then you could go and buy the music you liked each month.

Well, shit!

• Epic Games bought Bandcamp in March 2022.

• In 2023, Bandcamp’s workers unionized under “Bandcamp United.”

• In late 2023 (October), Epic sold Bandcamp to Songtradr, a music licensing company.

• As part of that sale, many of the former Bandcamp employees were not offered positions by Songtradr, particularly those involved in union organizing.

• Songtradr stated it would continue Bandcamp’s marketplace model and its “artist-first revenue share,” but declined to confirm whether certain features (e.g. user experience, Bandcamp Daily editorial) would remain unchanged.

I had no idea. Union busting, now… What a great way to show you respect the people who generate your wealth.

“So often?” I only heard about Epic acquiring them, have there been developments?

It is legal to download music from P2P networks where I live. Whether it’s ethical has always been a different argument, but it really only has to be MORE ethical than using Spotify.

My late 20s partner has no idea what Napster is and it breaks my heart.

Do you want payola? Because that’s how you get payola.

Not just any American: Tim Sweeney! I’ve talked to artists and they have said that there hasn’t been any fallout yet. I have to imagine it’s just a matter of time if it doesn’t manage to buy itself back or something.

There is an AI panic, just like there was a microprocessor panic 50 years ago. Distrust and panic are different things. There is also AI distrust. There is also an AI revolution, an AI bubble, and a whole new AI epoch. There’s lots of AI shit going on right now, and panic is certainly one of them.

This article is AI panic because it’s what we would call a hallucination if an LLM wrote it. There is no AI in this story. People in a panic often jump at nothing.

This is shitty journalism that massively distorts what actually happened. It’s just traditional video filters, and AI panic.

Flawless? No. But the bar is very low.

There hasn’t been a meaningful left among your country’s ruling class in a very long time.

Maybe your photos are just shit. I get engagement. Which, by the EXACT FUCKING STANDARD that you just used, PROVES it’s not dead.

They were getting whipped up and manipulated. A lot of that shit you are talking about was not organic. A lot of the shit you are talking about was pure paranoid mass delusion. A moral panic just like a classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic. It’s a feature of the left that such things DON’T spread the same way.

if this is true (which I do doubt completely

I really want to believe that you doubt it completely.