Spotify
 

Started using this last week, and have barely touched iTunes since. Got the $5/month plan, but thinking about going for $10.

Anybody else on it??

don't like it anymore. used to be ace but now it's all 5 PLAYS ONLY without paying, and i don't find that many new songs on it where it would actually be worth putting money in to.

I will show y'all all the new music you need

I use it when i want to listen to something new(well, + a small amount of usual stuff i listen to i guess) can't be bothered paying for it as i don't use it enough. Its much better than itunes though.(one thing i have noticed is if you don't use it for a couple of days or something then your free hours go back up)

No I still download music for free.

Just call it what it is is all.

If the feds come to my house I'm comin for you. :p

Spotify is pretty amazing. And yes, I have had it with iTunes and Amazon MP3.

Then you wouldn't call it stealing.

Metallica isn't on Spotify(cause Metallica are cunts) which is why D Mac doesn't care for it. Never listens to anything else!

He seems to LOVE Amberian Dawn.

who

Some shitty band who put a bunch of their stuff up on Rock Band 3.

Seeing as Spotify only let you play 5 songs now I use Grooveshark, web based Spotify...

www.grooveshark.com

Let you play 5 songs? Think you've read that wrong. Its 5 times for each song. Not much betetr mind but just correcting you.

I listen to Creed sometimes!

Oh, is it? TBH I stopped using it as soon as I heard it was changing...

Grooveshark has a good collection of rare songs that I will never find on spotify. Like John Mayer's Kid A cover or even Linkin Park's Wish cover.

Not helping the "D Mac likes it, so it sucks" thing.

Of course it's stealing.

And Jaywalking is murder.

I mean, as long as we're being silly.

Surely you're smarter than that.

Surely you are, but you're equating copyright infringement and theft.

The illegal acquisition of copy written material is theft of intellectual property, so while I see what you're getting at, you are, in fact, incorrect. It is theft regardless of whether it's a tangible media (CD, LP, etc.) or a digital file.

"Theft of intellectual property" being a term that was coined by people who wanted to villainise taping off the radio and other such actions that were going to "kill the record industry."

one cannot actually steal an idea or a non-tangible item. That's why we have so many lovely individual terms both legally and in common lexicon for them.

"file sharing=stealing" is nothing more than a very successful meme intended to bypass reason and go for a more visceral response, like calling abortion murder or likening anyone you dislike to terrorists or those German guys Godwin's always bitching about.

Intellectual property deserves to be and is protected, but the violation of such is not theft unless there is an actual component being stolen. At best, you can liken it to being "like stealing," but we're still talking about crimes with different severities and repercussions, ie jaywalking is murder.

And if you keep saying it's stealing, then the terrorists have won!

(Since it seems we are going to continue to be silly)

Semantics, lads

lol this "discussion"