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Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by cratermoon on Sunday September 26, 2021 @12:55PM (#28662431)
> the dependency chain of rent extractors

Especially this part. Spotify in particular is bad this way, with the artists getting a nearly invisibly small slice of the money. Youtube isn't much better. Reduce the friction that prevents me from giving my money directly to the artists to support their work and I'd be a much bigger paying consumer of online media.

Re:Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging netw... by crtasm on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:34AM (#28669867)
I suggest bandcamp.com as one of the best places to support artists right now. It's not the same model as Spotify though.

The search there isn't great but I find a huge % of things I'm interested in come up on a websearch for: artistname albumname bandcamp