• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Bandcamp, even though it’s ownership is questionable at this point, still has Bandcamp Fridays where the artist gets 100% of the sale, and they let you download DRM-free high quality FLAC files.

    This is for all those who don’t like this, and want to demand DRM-free files.

        • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 days ago

          You find niche artists on Spotify? Not my experience at all, anything even slightly non-mainstream I could not find.

          • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Yeah, tbh Spotify has massively diversified my music taste and even more than that introduced me to literally hundreds of artists I’ve come to really enjoy.

            I don’t use the home tab or any public playlists, I make my own playlists out of music featuring my faves, usually grouped by genre or vibe or for highly personal stuff to specific times and events in my life, like an old mixtape of sorts, then I’ll see what’s suggested at the bottom and check those songs out. If I really like it I might listen to more by the same artist or the album the song is from but I’ve never been huge on albums as a medium specifically.

            It used to be a few years back that almost all the suggestions were spot on, maybe even better than Google Play Music used to be, but much more effective than the tried and true method of googling “artist/album/song like x”.

            A lot of the artists I found that way only have a couple hundred or thousand monthly listeners, if that.

            Though lately the recs haven’t been very good.

  • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone’s (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It’s still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ’s sake.

    I’d sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.

    • Probius@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It should be illegal to revoke or modify people’s purchases. All games should be able to be kept and played using the version you bought it at except maybe MMOs due to technical reasons. Forced updates and DRM need to be outlawed.

    • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.

      I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Of course it’s real. This is maybe one of the least shocking beliefs from a webcomic like xkcd ever. Like 1/5 of all the comics are about hacker culture or Linux.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Okay but programing or Unix jokes are whole different cake than openly admitting piracy unless you’re Meta.

        • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Maybe you’re missing some context. This comic is about DRM. Back in the day there was a big fight between the companies and consumer advocate groups like the EFF over DRM because it’s awful for the people paying for DRM’d content.

          It’s pretty easy to buy DRM-free content now for certain forms of media, esp. books and music, not so much for others. But my whole point here is that if you’re on the side of the EFF and FSF, you’re anti-DRM, which means that you’ll probably support piracy as long as DRM continues to fuck over consumers.

    • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 days ago

      That sucks and all, but to be fair this is entirely on you. They sold you a DRM-Free file and you chose to not actually use it and to rely on their servers which you have no control over. This isn’t a “DRM Free” issue.

      Personal ownership means you take personal responsibility for it.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Every day that passes I think more and more that I should have a local backup copy of my whole GOG games collection.

        • CaptSpify@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          4 days ago

          I have a reminder pop every few months to download the newest games that I bought from GoG. I’ve found it easier to download one or two, rather than a giant batch.