<story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>canofbars</author><text>These days there is RED which comes close to what WCD was but the user base is a fraction of the size and will never reach WCD because torrents are far less popular.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.&lt;p&gt;People can get what is &lt;i&gt;popular&lt;/i&gt;. There&amp;#x27;s just so many albums and soundtracks that just can&amp;#x27;t be found on Spotify. Legal streaming is nothing compared to the private music torrent tracker scene... Before it was shut down, one particular site was often called the library of Alexandria for music and even had actual artists release their music there.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy compared music piracy to the prohibition. He said people didn&amp;#x27;t want to break the law. People just wanted to drink. I haven&amp;#x27;t looked at piracy the same way since.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to seeing this, and I realize this doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same draw as it would have 20 years ago. People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamacyborg</author><text>Soulseek is also still a thing, or was last time I checked.</text></comment>
<story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>canofbars</author><text>These days there is RED which comes close to what WCD was but the user base is a fraction of the size and will never reach WCD because torrents are far less popular.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.&lt;p&gt;People can get what is &lt;i&gt;popular&lt;/i&gt;. There&amp;#x27;s just so many albums and soundtracks that just can&amp;#x27;t be found on Spotify. Legal streaming is nothing compared to the private music torrent tracker scene... Before it was shut down, one particular site was often called the library of Alexandria for music and even had actual artists release their music there.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy compared music piracy to the prohibition. He said people didn&amp;#x27;t want to break the law. People just wanted to drink. I haven&amp;#x27;t looked at piracy the same way since.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to seeing this, and I realize this doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same draw as it would have 20 years ago. People can get the music they want at a price they&amp;#x27;re willing to accept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>Can you enlighten people who have no idea what these acronyms mean?</text></comment>