| ▲ | 9dev 6 days ago | |
Our legal and economic systems just don’t work that way, being poor is no excuse for doing something illegal. Add to that that not all musicians are Beyoncé or Taylor Swift, but might just as well have to fight to survive, living from Spotify payout to gig revenue as well. I sympathise with people trying to get access to culture by all means, but we cannot wholesale morally legitimise freeloading because of that. We all get to enjoy a broad cultural landscape, but that can only exist if most people pay for content. | ||
| ▲ | scns 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Spotify payout ~1000$ to ~12000$ a year: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/19/zoe-keating-spot... | ||
| ▲ | aspenmayer 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Our legal and economic systems just don’t work that way, being poor is no excuse for doing something illegal. Copyright infringement is a civil offense, not criminal. Or in other jurisdictions, it’s not an offense at all, but rather priced in to the costs of recordable media and storage media/devices. | ||