• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Offering a clean, ad free, usable storefront to purchase media would do more to prevent piracy than anything.

    But corpos dont like that.

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      4 hours ago

      Of course. It’s all about control. They see users as property, an object to be sold and traded.

      Do not ever allow yourselves to be disrespected like this.

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        4 hours ago

        Try explaining any of this to my friends lol. Obsessed with Google, the tok, xitter, and shitty data stealing llms. Disgusting garbage.

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      7 hours ago

      That could’ve been iTunes if their interface didn’t suck ass and if they didn’t go for the subscription-only model in Apple Music.

      I swear for years it was THE place to buy music. I mean I never did, I didn’t have access to a card with online payments enabled as a teen, so I just pirated everything anyway. But it seemed like the default place.