• BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
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    9 months ago

    TikTok lost 1/3 of total available music because one company owns all of it. That is fucked.

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    9 months ago

    Not that I love or hate tiktok or UMG but these are the reasons why pirating is growing in popularity again. Regular people don’t really care how many millions or billions corporations get to divide among themselves, all people want is a bit of freedom to get what they want. And what people want can be had for not that much money or effort either, it’s just that a handful of greedy companies want to control it all and balance all content between how much money they can make and how much people are willing to pay for it. Right now the scales are unbalanced and more and more people can’t afford most of this content, so pirating for many becomes a more acceptable option.