If you have any FLAC CD rips you downloaded from IA, you might want to burn them to a physical copy in the actual likelihood those rips might get taken down for copyright reasons now, especially if it’s long out of print; that’s what I did for Ecco: Songs of Time, I burned it as an audio CD recently, that way you’ll ideally have a full-quality physical copy you can rip from should the files get corrupted.
Of course that should also be followed up with the FLAC files themselves being stored on some form of external media as well and not just a burned audio CD copy, but yeah.
This also counts for any legally-purchased FLAC albums off 7Digital and the like because there’s always the threat of those getting delisted for future download from such sites; I lost half my 7Digital library to exactly that.
If available, if I buy any more music in the future, it’s going to be a physical release that I’ll rip to FLAC myself so that I can at least still have that album in a physical format it should it get delisted from digital storefronts for any reason.
Just as an extra note, keeping backups should be strongly encouraged, but self-burned CD/DVD/BluRay are extremely easy to get scratched and then no longer be readable. The store bought disks have an extra plastic layer on the bottom that protects the actual data section of the disk, but in order to be able to burn them at home this extra plastic layer cannot be present. Thus any scratches/scuffs immediately damage the underlying data not just the plastic protection.
Confidentiality in such a case is so stupid.
Court rulings have elaborate reasoning on how they come to their conclusion. Would be nice if we could have something like that when public goods like the Internet Archive are under pressure. For all of us to have a better understanding of the law, rights, and consequences.
That is the whole point if a settlement though. It is outside the reach of rhe court that both parties agree to a certain resolution.
It may very well be the case that IA was offered a substantially smaller settlement sum, but only under the consition that the exact sum is not publizised so that it would bot become part of settlement sum reasoning in possible future court cases.
Right, sounds like intentionally blinding the public
Never pay for music again, and don’t let anyone you know do that shit either.
They come for archives–nothing should be off limits.
Never pay for music again, and don’t let anyone you know do that shit either.
That’s quite a big umbrella. You don’t have to pay labels to pay artists. Plenty of artists release HOURS upon HOURS of high quality COMMERCIAL FREE underground bass / drum and bass / jungle / etc. You just have to know where to look.
I’m a bass aggregator for my local music scene and here are some artists putting out absolutely high quality shit free to you on the regular: https://odysee.com/@shades:3/liquidSoulBirthday089-4hr20min:6 https://odysee.com/@shades:3/fullcornmoonweek37:1
I plug into the mixer after about 5 minutes in the first link and 10 in the second. Please go pay your local artists and stop listening to cookie cutter produced for the masses music. It’s so much more rewarding when your favorite artists recognize your face and remember your name.
If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music. Where possible buy as directly as possible from the artist, e.g., through bandcamp.
If you send the artist money in the form of a check or a donation more of that money goes to the person who produces the thing.
It’s not possible to reach 100%, but every little bit of your dollar you ensure enters the pocket of a person who worked for a living is one less bit of that dollar that ends up in the hands of a leech or a parasite.
Giving Spotify or Google or Apple or whoever has inserted themselves into the system to absorb money for something that they don’t pay for is fundamentally not healthy for any part of the ecosystem of art.
In a way, I don’t see the point. Like, for example, what would my money do for someone like Metallica? Who’ve made millions for years doing what they do. I’ve pirated their music long ago and I don’t feel guilty because I know they’re a band who has signed contracts that were worth lots of money. Besides concerts, what would I be doing?
That’s pretty much where I would draw the line with these things. If bands and artists have signed with a label, majority of the time, you don’t need to do anything, they’re already making it, that’s what they wanted to do and they did it.
It is better to support those who hadn’t.
I agree with what you’re saying, and I should have been more clear.
I’m not saying you have to send them money, but if you do let money leave your wallet, we should be trying to make sure it gets to a deserving party. I think in general, we should avoid giving money to extractive industries that don’t add value and I’m encouraging you to error on the side of sending that money directly to the artist/laborers and cutting out literally everybody else.
I agree with you in that no one needs to be sending money to Metallica.
It’s not worth the time effort or attention to pretend some small extra fucked up corner of capitalism can pretend to be slightly less fantastical and violent.
End this shit. Give everyone what they need. Help people find food and housing without requiring them to sing and dance for it.
“Give everyone what they need”
From who’s pocket? It won’t be from the wealthy, because they are powerful - the wealth is a side-effect of that. They’ll still be powerful, and still have more than the rest of us.
I’m not going to waste time trying to divide uo my table scraps under capitalism. That’s tedious stressful nonsense.
From whose pocket? Who gives a shit.
And concerts
Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.
How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can’t.
Because, you’d find this hard to believe, that there are people who want to enjoy a hobby without feeling like selling out. Like there are actual artists who even see signing a contract with a record label as selling out. Because that would mean selling their soul, which countless of artists and bands have done over the years if it mean success and reach. But look at where that got them, might’ve got them fame and money, but it doesn’t attract artists who don’t care.
These artists wouldn’t mind working real jobs while doing what they enjoy. And they don’t mind using services like this. Some artists in the past, even saw pirating as a way of getting out and being known by people, it’s happened before.
That’s what I’m saying.
The argument:
If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music
is fundamentally flawed. Nearly all artists don’t make more than pocket change at best.
Even if we were to abolish all copyright tomorrow and no one would every pay for art again, art would still exist and be published. Because as it turns out, people enjoy making art.
That’s not to say they shouldn’t be paid. Of course people should make a living by selling art. But OP saying art will cease to exist if there is no money is completely wrong.
Because, you’d find this hard to believe, that there are people who want to enjoy a hobby without feeling like selling out.
Hobbyists have bills to pay, too.
These artists wouldn’t mind working real jobs
These artists wouldn’t mind working real jobs
These artists wouldn’t mind working real jobs
The use of “real jobs” already tells me that you don’t respect artists, which is likely the real reason why you don’t want to pay them.
Because with your logic they’d make nothing.
Never heard of passion projects?
Artists can’t pay rent now. They make music though.
I work for a better world. I do not look for excuses to reward corporations that steal from artists to burn libraries, thanks.
I feel like “not paying artists” makes as much for a better world as “not tipping waitstaff”.
It’s really not something i consider worth my time and attention. I know your liberal programmed virtues tell you that supporting artists under capitalism with your dollar-vote is the done thing, but i don’t agree and won’t be wasting any more of my time trying to reason you out of such a convoluted position on something that barely matters.
You could play the world’s smallest violin for them. Couldn’t get paid for it apparently, but still.
More seriously, we probably disagree and I won’t try to persuade you. Abolish capitalism and all that is preaching to the choir, but while we will live under it, if an artist you like has a direct way for your support (cash, bank transfer, crypto, whatever floats your boat) that doesn’t fatten music labels, would/do you?
Maybe, if it were convenient. Won’t be though, so it’s not something I’ve considered at length. They went after the archives though, and I think the entire concept of paying for media should take any hit that can be issued in retaliation.
“Some media company sued the Internet archive so now I’m not paying any artists for their work or the media I consume” is entitled bullshit. Esp after acknowledging many struggle to pay rent.
Burn your CDs and listen to the silence. Maybe a thought will wander through your skull-cavern
That’s an awfully defeatist way of looking at it, IMO.
The whole point of this lawsuit was to try and torpedo the Internet Archive. Would’ve been nice to know the explicit results from whatever settlement was reached. Was it for IA to just remove and ban the account that uploaded the works? I’ve no idea.
Either way, just the music labels making up numbers as usual to make the battle look unwinnable. Fucking pricks.
and the artists will get zero
Even with legal alternatives like Spotify, the artists still get pennies while the CEO and Joe Rogan rake in millions.
I completely understood why Maynard James Keenan and Tool was hesitant for a while about putting up their discography on there.
Makes me wonder how much of this was due to IA having the federal deposit label now. That had to have chopped the lawsuit in half as they can legally hold all of that music. The confidential part speaks volumes.
Never pay for music again, and don’t let anyone you know do that shit either.
They come for archives; nothing should be off limits.
