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Bleeping Lobster @ Transcendant @lemmy.world
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  • You see it across all kinds of media; whether it's a song you like, or a game, or a film, or a TV show... If you dare to say online you're a fan, someone will swiftly be along to inform you that your opinion is wrong, your show is bad, your taste is bad, and you should feel bad

    I've started to give way less of a fuck about comments like that. Some people are very sad / small, and can only make themselves feel less so for a brief moment by trying to ruin the enjoyment of others. It's OK not to like things, there's plenty of things I don't like 😁 but it's fine to me if other people like those things, different strokes for different folks.

  • A distinction I did not make, good point. Maybe I misunderstand, I thought emojis and emoticons were the same thing.

    Or is it an "all emojis are emoticons, but all emoticons are not emojis" kinda situation?

  • I get that they have to protect their IP, but $14m is insane. Feels like the judge threw the book, switch, 3DS and every other console they could find at him. Does he have no right of appeal against the sentence?

    When Bowser was first sentenced, Nintendo's lawyer Ajay Singh said in a court transcript (via Axios) that the company wanted to "send a message" to other Switch hackers.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought sentencing was supposed to reflect the severity of the crime and make fair restitution? It sounds as if this sentence / restitution was massively inflated to create a deterrant, to benefit a private business. Huge fail from Nintendo imo that only makes me want to never buy one of their games or consoles again.

  • I guess, I just don't see many people getting something for free then deciding to go buy it out of the goodness of their heart... maybe I'm too pessimistic.

    I try not to pirate music production software because I make some small money from my music, and I've personally seen companies go bust and get snapped up by Apple because everyone (me included) justified pirating their small plugins as "they're making lots of money anyway". But I justify pirating shit like Adobe to myself I hate paying a subscription to use software. I dunno maybe more people have this mindset than I realise and are happy to pay after 'trying before buying'.

    I'm interested to hear responses from anyone who genuinely buys the music they enjoy after pirating it. Why would they not just buy it in the first place?

  • People say this all the time about Spotify, but it's actually a viable outlet for revenue if you're on a decent label who understands how to leverage playlists.

    Obv that doesn't apply for freeform... but for styles like trance, techno, DnB etc it's not unheard of for a track to get 500k streams across a variety of playlists, which equates to $1500.

    Got a sample preview of your favorite release?

    I don't think it would be wise to dox myself here after I've made an unpopular comment!

  • I agree. I think people have taken my comment as a defence of the geoblocking, was just offering an example of why someone like a small indie musician may choose to do that. I do find it frustrating when I have to VPN to a different country to watch a video.

    But the reason I geoblock one country isn't to be an arsehole, it's because Russia has no recourse for indie musicians like myself who have their music stolen. They have no law preventing music theft which is why it's rampant in that one territory (not saying it doesn't ever happen elsewhere). Pretty much the entire rest of the world has some sort of avenue where I can issue something like a dmca.

  • Hard to say really. I'm fairly sure if it was available online for free, less people would have bought it.

    When you're talking only £2000 or so of sales for a small indie release, piracy makes a huge hit to sales. My more popular stuff like trance, the sales drop off a cliff the moment it's leaked. There was a huge problem with people on promo lists leaking pre-released tracks to warez sites, not sure if the main labels (eg ones like Armada, Anjuna etc) ever got to the bottom of it, but it really hurt the sales of people who aren't exactly making bank from their music

  • Whenever I release music myself, I actively block it in Russia, because they relentlessly steal my trance / freeform releases and upload them in warez sites.

    Of course geoblocking can be circumvented by a determined pirate but it helps to not be on their radar in first place as a lesser known artist.

    As an example, once I released a freeform album. Freeform is a very niche, small scene. It was on Russian forums within a couple of days. Fortunately one of my fans notified me, I had a Russian friend contact the site on my behalf to explain that I'm a poor struggling artist, and they're literally taking money out of my pocket; to my surprise they agreed to take the links down.