Lol not very imaginative then i suppose? I want to make a fun hobby project for myself and a niche audience. Thats how i can have this idea. And i am simply gauging if this approach could be used without getting fucked with fines and legal issues.

It would be downloadable because im not sure how i would serve it for playback without it also being possible to download. There would be no big “download the song here” button. The goal is not to share song files but to discuss songs i like and allow readers to play along (whole song, parts of song, whatever suits the blog post). Side effect of that is that it would be downloadable.

If you mean that “facilitation of piracy” is anything where someone would be able to obtain an illegal copy of the song then yea sure, but in that case youtube is already the biggest facilitator of piracy there is because it is trivial to download any song from there.

Yea im leaning towards embedding it externally instead - too many uncertainties. Ill see what i can find that could fill the same role i had envisioned :)

That was pretty cool!

Either they tell you very sternly to stop, and you do. If not, they may take action, either against you or your host.

This is mostly what i am hoping will happen - that the first step is always going to give me a chance to comply with a request to remove it.

I mean, if you want to facilitate piracy, that’s one thing, but don’t consult social media about it — consult a lawyer instead.

On the contrary, it is not to facilitate piracy (as in the goal is not to serve files for illegal download), it will include links to legal avenues of purchase and download. Its just that i am thinking about a particular style of embedding this within a blog post that would require me to host the file on my own server - and then that song would be downloadable for anyone who want to (even though i have no explicit “download button”).

Cheers - it is the “practical answer” that i hope will be the case, ie being able to comply with a request to take it down. I am fine with complying with this. In most cases it will be single songs from some artist i enjoy listening to with links to their pages on bandcamp or qobuz or the like where any reader could purchase the full album drm free.

My impression was that most countries have been forced to implement similar dmca laws (as per corey doctorow’s account at least)? I thought that most of these things were enforceable cross-border

However, what I would do is go ahead and then wait for the DMCA request. I think you could then decide what action to take going forward.

Id be fine taking stuff down if there was a request, but id then want to only take down whatever song/songs triggered the request. Just dont wanna be on the hook for a lot of fines before i had the chance to respond.

You could provide links to YouTube, SoundCloud, Qobuz and loads more like ReverbNation (mainly for new/upcoming artists), with links to online tools for downloading etc.

The idea is to make it pretty integrated and keep things inside the blog post with a simple player widget. And im not a big fan of spotify and youtube etc so would want to avoid linking to them if possible. I intend to include links for legal purchase and downloads of the song (+ full album and any other thing from the same artist/band, on qobuz or bandcamp and similar sites that sell drm-free music).

I generally make sure to spend my money one contemporary artists or authors (who are not already filthy rich, if they are already super well-off i dont contribute to increasing that wealth and instead buy something else) and try to maxmize the amount of money that falls to them. You could also find ways to donate directly to these artists and then pirate their stuff to your hearts content (from my ethical point of view anwyay, law will not agree with me). Ive also first pirated stuff and then bought it later and just replaced the files on my media server.

I dont really care about big corporations or some random rights holder long after someones death. So any big studio movie or old rock bands get pirated.

Sorry i was only making a joke, not hating on you :)

And is owned by an ad company afaik

Is “i use Linux Mint, in case y’all were wondering” the mint variant of “i use arch btw”?

I hereby grant you all “proper authorization”. Ez

Id have thought he would choose a language he had a better grasp of

The Nordic countries are about to ban gas.

No we are not. The 2025 100% ev target in norway was always a target, and there was never talks of a ban on ice. Were somewhere at around 95-100% new sales being evs but you can still buy ice and wont be prevented from doing so atleast in the forseeable future. Rest of the world just went on assuming that it was talk of a ban. Its not. Well probably follow suit with whatever eu is doing when it comes to actual bans.

Yes, they are switch emulators and were taken down by the developers following legal troubles with nintendo

Perfect, thank you!!!

i started out wanting to hate it but its still running on a loop after several minutes and i cant seem to get myself to close it, and now i am questioning so many things

As a norwegian who is back to pirating after a break of around 10-12 years, it is not primarily a cost issue. Hell with hardware investments it is costing me more tho that includes stuff for gaming (roms, i currently dont pirate pc games).

What it is is a service issue. Self curated collection of movies and shows beats the fragmented shit that is current streaming platforms not to mention the flood of utter garbage on tgese platforms you have to sift thru to find somethinf worth watching. Not to mention the privacy aspects and in general the “ownership” model (ie licensing without really knowing the terms).

Fuck that shit and im never getting fooled again.

Thats pretty cool, never heard of those kinds of tapes. Im at somewhere between 5-10 TB myself. The cheapest storage units ive seen is about $90/month here so that would be a bit expensive, but there might be some smaller ones for item storage that i dont know about.

ah rotating the drives can is a smart solution, that could be an option.