• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Everyone taking her side like “ohhh won’t someone pleeeeease have sympathy for this blood-sucking billionaire?!?!?!” in here make me SICK.

    FUCK OFF

    You are correct and so is Marte.

    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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      5 days ago

      She might not need sympathy, but in a conflict between artists on one side and record labels and private equity on the other, for me at least who I’m backing is pretty easy.

      Better she has them than the other side, and no one has to buy a new copy. It’s not like a video game release where they kill the original server.

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        4 days ago

        false dichotomy.

        art belongs in the public domain.

        no billionaire has the right to exist.

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          4 days ago

          It’s not a false dichotomy, those were the two outcomes of the struggle for ownership of her masters. We might want other options, but I think it’s a step better than private equity keeping ownership, don’t you?

          It’s fine to assert both your viewpoints as a moral goal and value. Alas, us just making assertions and statements of morality doesn’t end Capitalism or less to reallocation of resources in a more sustainable, equitable manner.

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        5 days ago

        People have sympathy for artists that have been screwed out of owning their own music by middleman record labels - a tale as old as record labels themselves?

        And this artist in particular, while imperfect, gives a whole lot of money to positive charities, is pro trans rights, pro LGBT, and anti Trump.

        Gosh, how hard to comprehend the sympathy.