Many music listeners will spend hours decrying streaming or bragging about their black box of unreleased/comp music and support stealing artist IP but are the first to invoke it against AI

Is this because piracy (small guy steal from little guy?)

And AI (big guy steal from small artist)?

You would most online artists would be against this as it would prevent them from making money off their own intellectual property

Streetbreed member since 2026 ai apologist

cant wait to see how this goes
good question to stir the pot op

Askin the real questions

yep

and indirectly piracy and what it did is why there can't be a real unified music industry stance against ai lol

I don't think most music listeners are pirating music. Most music listeners are using streaming services.

People still pirate music?

Who the f*** is pirating AI music?

Im gay

that low ass pay u get from streams, might as b piratin the s***

@op i hate you profoundly

who is pirating music in 2026?

Piracy? What is it 1697?

well they’re not the same thing at all first of all

ban

If buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.

noticer

niggas in here acting stupid and i hope @op don't make me look crazy by turning out to be an ai account

but piracy whether in a past tense of taking the money out of the industry to begin with or the fact that streaming was the industry's only fighting chance against what piracy did to album sales and the cash flow of the industry are definitely correlated

not even getting into leaks although you could so those don't count if they not officially released...although that gets into leak culture and songs not coming out once they are leaked but that's not our individual fault

False equivalency

if you ain't buy me a ring yet i'm not finna cook, clean or be loyal to you those are wifey privileges

Pirated media != lost revenue
in the majority of cases.
There are many people who pirate that simply choose not to listen/watch if the only way to do so is by paying.

i think these are two different topics completely lol

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