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Re:Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films by vel0city on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:39PM (#42110250)
TBH, when it comes to the music I'm consuming from streaming services I don't really care. They end up taking the space of an enhanced radio for me, always on and always on-demand. Whatever I want at the moment, for the most part.

For music I really care about culturally, it's absolutely physical and backed up digitally.

But 95% of my listening is definitely streaming services.

Re:Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films by l72 on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:57PM (#42110365)
I think it depends on the person. I am a huge music fan, and am very particular about my music. There are some remastered versions that I strongly dislike (and some that I prefer). I find it to be near impossible to know what version I am going to get on a streaming service. The original and the remaster may be from different labels, which means when streaming services renegotiate, you may suddenly end up with a different version in your playlist.

For movies, I _probably_ don't care if I get the theatrical cut, extended cut, un-rated version and so on (unless we are talking about the Abyss), so I sort of see your point.

But for me, that is why I curate my own music collection locally and run navidrome to stream.