I'm done with Google
&gt; So I pirate the movie (please don&#x27;t arrest me, it&#x27;s google&#x27;s fault)<p>I really like the frank tone of the article and I wish people in general would just write unabashedly more often when it comes to stuff like this. Writers online love to dance around the idea of &quot;pirating&quot; their digital goods when communicating on the topic: &quot;Ooh my &#x27;friend&#x27; may or may not have downloaded &#x27;xyz&#x27; movie from &#x27;abc&#x27; website, but I don&#x27;t advocate piracy&quot;.<p>I pirate music. I pirate movies. Who gives a fuck? I&#x27;m not selling it for money. I love having mp4 files, I love having mp3 files. I ESPECIALLY love pirating mp3 files ever since Spotify and the streaming&#x2F;subscription model has taken over. spytify automatically records mp3 files with metadata tags while you personally listen to Spotify <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jwallet&#x2F;spy-spotify">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jwallet&#x2F;spy-spotify</a><p>Adhering to file-based digital possessions has saved me countlessly over the years and it will continue to. I had my music uploaded to Google Play Music, and once that was shut down (the equivalent songs are not in the replacement), I swore off streamed music as a way to organize my personal library, forever. When I end up liking enough content from an artist, I try to find best avenues for compensation, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.<p>The things I could be doing better in this regard is better file organization and encrypting everything to safeguard against when cloud file-hosting services come for me based on some dystopian DRM file-content scanning scheme. I&#x27;ve not hit that extreme point yet, however, although I should get around to it sooner than later with rclone (makes it trivially easy) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rclone&#x2F;rclone">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rclone&#x2F;rclone</a><p>And when a situation like the article arises, getting your auntie access to The Wizard of Oz might just be an Airdrop away.