The biggest problem is them doing illegal shit like scanning all your photos instead of just what you pick

Checks out

But then you have to remove ALL consumer protections on contracts. Payday loans can start charging 20,000% interest and make you sign a line that uses fancy language to put your car up for collateral. You could prohibit people of a specific race from renting or buying property.

So go that way, but also disband every government agency because if we’re sovereign then that’s it. Every man is his own government.

Or maybe we could just keep the protections we have and expand them to cover an industry that’s thrived on screwing over artists it’s whole existence.

So block the article in India but there’s no reason to block it in the rest of the world. Fuck India’s government gonna do to them?

I have no idea who these women are but the music industry knows what it is. And it’s gotten worse. And it doesn’t care. The industry needs to die and art profits should go to the artist.

It needs to be illegal for record companies to get rights for anything other than distribution.

If your band is signed with Polygram you can’t even record a duet with an artist on another label without paying Polygram royalties for a song that is not your band’s and has nothing to do with them.

They don’t pay as well as Apple and Tidal but they pay much better than YouTube

When you’re indy you don’t make money from streaming. When you’re actually popular you do, but the record company gets it. It’s like when hard partying rockstars used to all go broke. It’s because they made millions but the corporations took it all and made them pay back the recording and partying costs out of their meager earnings. Then if the band was bust the company would write off the expenses as a loss while still collecting from the artists’ share.

For Taylor Swift’s 1999 album, there was an article that showed Spotify had paid millions to the record company and Swift got about $200. That’s why she’s re-recording everything as “Taylor’s version.” So she can get the revenue.

The singer of Cracker showed his earnings from streaming the song Low one month and TouTube had way more views than any streamer and had paid pennies. Seriously it was like .32.

My last check from streaming was $12 and that was only split two ways.

And the scalping sites.

They’re totally a monopoly but the government won’t do anything because they only hurt normal people.

Musk needs to start a ticketing agency so somebody rich has a stake and watch congress do something.

I went with a date to see Tori Amos last year and the merch was stupidly expensive (even for concert merch) and the woman told us to order online because the venue was taking ½ of merch so everything was double

Because Ticketmaster and it’s venues are a monopoly. Pearl Jam tried to warn us 30 years ago.

The ticketing company owns all the venues now and they own the secondhand scalper sites so they allocate a bunch of tickets to the secondhand site and mark them way up plus they can charge whatever they want for the venue and only pay the artist what they were contracted for

I’ve never heard of electrify America

Our university campus and a couple of hotels have Tesla Chargers set up

I just signed up after lurking for a while. So far it’s very limited compared to Reddit and if not for the loss of Apollo I wouldn’t be here. But I’m using an app that looks and acts like Apollo (Voyager) so it feels like Reddit did for years.

So I guess fuck people who use static images as screensavers