• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been aware long enough of big gaps in the libraries of streaming services that there was never a reason to give it up.

    It took until fucking March of this fucking year for Spotify to have any old De La Soul to stream. Good thing I’ve had a high quality rip of their early discography for fifteen fucking years. Otherwise I would have been shit outta luck on listening to them.

    I couldn’t stream a killer album from fucking 1989 in 2022. There continue to be massive gaps in their libraries due to licensing issues and people who just don’t want to get underpaid by Spotify.

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      1 year ago

      At least the De La Soul situation was understandable. Imagine the amount of time it must have taken to track down and relicense every sample.

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        The fact that visual collage can exist so easily, and yet audio collage is facing an uphill battle, some 40 years later, feels like a big indicator that copyright law in the US still needs a massive overhaul