• KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
    25·
    18 hours ago

    CDs/DVDs/BluRays

    I don’t want to support Spotify, which is owned by tencent. I don’t want to spend a fortune on streaming services. I don’t want to sell my data to google by using YouTube, and I want to be able to listen to music/ watch movies when offline.

    • piyuv@lemmy.world
      3·
      49 minutes ago

      Spotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.

      There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.

      The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)

      https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/

      • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        16 hours ago

        For me personally? I have been steadily changing the way I source media over the past 2-3 years. Also I lately read more of other ppl going back to physical media for the same-ish reasons.

        • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Just pirate it after you have subscribed to it a few times. The author has got their share. The only party you’re harming by doing this is the streaming platform. Illegal, but not immoral.