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Laws only matter if you're not rich. (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

and crunchyroll

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.