You sound like you’d be ok with physical theft from a mom-pop-shop as long as you get something for free. It’s not in the spirit of the piracy community.
In the grand scheme of the media industry, they are. Moreover, Floatplane is a separate entity with < 50k users.
I don’t use Spotify, but yes, I pay for YouTube premium (which comes with YouTube Music, which I use instead of Spotify). I use YouTube a lot. $13.99 is not that much money for so much video and music content.
And I’m not saying don’t pirate anything ever. But come on, when people build a platform to try and do things right, to ethically support their creators, we ought to support those platforms.
Piracy should be used whenever you don’t want to pay for something
You sound like you’d be ok with physical theft from a mom-pop-shop as long as you get something for free. It’s not in the spirit of the piracy community.
Imagine trying to be morally righteous on a Piracy community…. Piracy ≠ Stealing
You sound like you’ve just made up an unrelated example to dog whistle
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It’s a small platform that costs a lot to run. Attempting to provide a fair and ethical alternative to YouTube.
Don’t use the service unless you’re going to support it.
LTT is not a small platform. Let him suck it up.
Spotify and YouTube cost a lot to run, do you block ads or pay for premium?
In the grand scheme of the media industry, they are. Moreover, Floatplane is a separate entity with < 50k users.
I don’t use Spotify, but yes, I pay for YouTube premium (which comes with YouTube Music, which I use instead of Spotify). I use YouTube a lot. $13.99 is not that much money for so much video and music content.
And I’m not saying don’t pirate anything ever. But come on, when people build a platform to try and do things right, to ethically support their creators, we ought to support those platforms.