• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Pirating from massive companies who exploit their workers and customers is different from pirating small indie artists, surely?

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        11 months ago

        Exactly. I had a 12 track album up for £9, or single tracks for 99p, don’t think that’s unreasonable!

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          11 months ago

          They have proven many times over that pirating/accessibility have inverse relationship.

          My most frustrating example was when I needed one song for a project my wife was working on a long time ago. I looked to try to purchase it online and could only find it on iTunes. In order to purchase from iTunes you had to download the application and install it. However I had an old machine running Linux… By the time I figured this all out I had spent 2 hours trying to pay $0.99 for one song. I could not find an approved way to do it. So I went the alternative route and had the song in under 5 minutes.

          They keep pushing accessibility down recently. I am not playing their games again. When they want to be reasonable they will get paid.

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          11 months ago

          Having a sale price adjusted for local currency would likely go a long way, and I don’t mean just a price conversion I mean an adjusted sale price. Some regions 9£ is a lot of money vs their monthly income and others it’s not much at all.

          Not so much currently (in the case of Russia) as you likely can’t sell it there due to sanctions, but in general that would help a lot in boosting sales vs piracy.

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            11 months ago

            I agree. I think people have taken my comment as a defence of the geoblocking, was just offering an example of why someone like a small indie musician may choose to do that. I do find it frustrating when I have to VPN to a different country to watch a video.

            But the reason I geoblock one country isn’t to be an arsehole, it’s because Russia has no recourse for indie musicians like myself who have their music stolen. They have no law preventing music theft which is why it’s rampant in that one territory (not saying it doesn’t ever happen elsewhere). Pretty much the entire rest of the world has some sort of avenue where I can issue something like a dmca.