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All streaming services are predatory scum. Piracy is the way, even though it is sometimes less convenient. I pay for Spotify because it is cheap and I'm lazy

If you want to support musicians buy their merch, go to concerts. If they are smalltime, find their patreon, or join their YouTube thing, or buy their music on Bandcamp, etc.

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Piracy is also predatory, just saying.

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It isn't when it's paid off in advance in a form of the predatory tax, also on people and items anywhere close to "piracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

If someone lives in one of the countries where this tax is being levied, they're not "pirating", they're merely exercising their prepaid privilege.

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Which is why I included the second paragraph.