Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn’t like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it’s the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let’s all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
192kbps max and now artists and corpos can pay to promote music on the front page.
No thx
Spotify claims 320kbps with premium (see the link below). Has this claim been debunked or something?
https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/
Noted! I didn’t know about that, my info might be dated.
I ended up on Apple Music cuz they have heady lossless by default.
… I still horde flacs tho
Yeah I could definitely see a lot of streaming services starting out with lower quality before Internet speeds and such have gotten more robust.
Absolutely. I’m very thankful for infinite fast mobile data now. I’d never have signed up for a music streaming service if I didn’t have they.