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When I was a kid my dad worked at a rough and tumble shipyard with a bunch of alcoholic ex cons. One of them came up on a stolen hard drive from a local radio station with thousands of albums on it. My dad borrowed that HD and ripped it onto our computer. I found so much good music that changed my life from that stolen trove of IP. I was radicalized young, free the art.
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↩ replying to MAHDOOD
The Hollywood actors doing the boycott have already shown that this bubble is at its limit. They aren't poor little victims and were begging to receive, in their words, "crumbs." Going back to searching and downloading content without restrictions is like using cyberspace as it should be - free and full of information (It's almost always useful, what matters is being real). Not this sloppy AI shit, copy paste pages (almost always AI-based), paid recommendations, ads, stupid influencers from nowhere and consumerism. I know it's not related to the main topic but I've decided to say what came to mind. One thing leads to another.
↩ replying to ben
Amazing. That’s a treasure. The hard drive my dad got a hold of was a bit earlier, probably 1998-1999. We lived rural so we had bad dial up. I would be able to download 7-8 songs each night while I slept. I found a lot of great music that way too, but the HD was a game changer. My mp3 player was always a 10/10.