Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)

Streaming video is on its way back to the cable era but worse (because you can't reliably trust that some video is going to be available).

Spotify is losing tons of its catalogue, so music is going to a similar thing.

The solution is to buy things as downloadable when possible, e.g. from Bandcamp, and otherwise to, let's say, obtain files in a different way.

Because people are much better at keeping archives available than companies are.

Keep seeding.

@socketwench
It never was. They were founded and existed for quite a long time as a name an a general idea of 'something with ads' before appropriating a shit-ton of music from a bunch of scene-groups and trying to be 'all music for free, but with ads' for a while and then pivoting to 'all music, for a price' as they got bought out by the big three/four record companies. Musicians never ever figured in the whole scheme apart from Providing Content.
@TheGibson