The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

Eden Dasilva quoting Rob Sheridan on where music stands today:

There’s this whole world where people exist just to show up in the middle and take a big chunk of the money from something they had no part in creating […] there’s too many examples being dangled in front of our face of how much money is being funneled away to billionaires and corporations, and artists always come last. That’s my frustration with where we’ve ended.

The ending by Dasilva:

Though my days of stealing music are well in the past, it’s clear that musicians are still being stolen from.

True of much more than music now-a-days [gestures at LLM model training].