As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend https://audiobookshelf.org

And also https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

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I feel like piracy and moral superiority don’t really belong together

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You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit

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Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.

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I mean the moral thing is just to not buy the product if you have an issue with it.

I have no problem with piracy, but pretending you’re some sort of hero for doing it is ridiculous

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How is that the moral avenue? You want these artists to fade into obscurity because nobody can ever hear their music while also not earning any money?

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It is a moral imperative to pirate EA, Ubisoft and Nintendo.

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Do you hate when people break in and steal from stores, etc? Because that’s you.

Also, if EA, Ubi, etc. are so shit, why are you stealing their games?

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Do you hate when people break in and steal from stores, etc? Because that’s you.

Break? What have I broken? And what are they missing?

Also, if EA, Ubi, etc. are so shit, why are you stealing their games?

I am pirating, not stealing, some of their games if they are worth playing. They can do good games, when if they have shitty behaviors. What’s so hard to understand?

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I always try to buy my music first, digital only though. I don’t have space for CDs or the like. If the option is not available (not common), the tricorn goes on. And normally I would go through any loophole I can find to get it legally. But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.

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What kind of japanese stuff do you listen to? I might be able to recommend a place

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But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.

Truer words have never been spoken

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When I was a teenager I would save my lunch money to order CDs from CD Japan

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A popular myth, but a myth nonetheless.

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