Intellectual property is a legal fiction.

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I’m curious what people here think about uploading other people’s music to Nostr, and even accepting zaps for it. I just stumbled across a huge catal...

Intellectual property is a legal fiction.

That said if I'd ever zap music that wasn't from the artist, I'm zapping the person for putting it in front of me, and not paying what I'd pay an artist for creating it. Both have their place.

Though ideally they're posting links to where the artist hosts it so that I can consume it there and at least give them their metrics even if I'm absolutely still blocking their ads.

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