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  • I’d say collectively the genre of black metal. In 2004 most black metal acts were still doing the same kind of lo-fi DIY “buzzsaw in a garbage can” style that had been popular throughout the 90s. You could find artists who were starting to get more creative with it, but you really had to look hard sometimes.

    Don’t get me wrong, I still love old school black metal, but when that’s all there is it starts to all sound alike after awhile.

    Now it seems like every time I hear a new black metal release people have really started pushing the genre WAY past a bunch of white guys in corpse paint singing about how depressed they are lol! Now there’s tons of interesting electronic bands, lots of crossover bands, lots of avant garde artistic stuff, lots of stuff from different countries all over the world all adding their own unique sounds… It’s just really refreshing to hear a genre that was notoriously strict become something so much bigger and better



  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs my bookshop legal?
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    2 months ago

    It’s a nobel concept but it definitely doesn’t sound legal. You can’t just give away free copies of books that the authors are still getting royalties/payments for. You’re basically just stealing from the original author or their families at that point even if you’re not getting paid for it. You can’t just redistribute someone’s intellectual property without compensating them or having some kind of agreement. What your describing just sounds like a file torrent on a pirating site lol




  • I don’t know the exact laws or if they are different between different countries, but I don’t think it’s legal at all to just hand out free digital scans of copyrighted books or even to sell them for that matter. I could see doing that for books that are old enough to be public domain, but anything more current definitely sounds illegal to me.

    Also I have no idea how you could “take back” a digital file from a customer. All they have to do is download the file to literally any device and you would never know or have any way to make them delete it.


  • Does your kid need access to the internet at all times? Do they need a camera available at all times? Are there a lot of apps that they need to have available to them? If not then probably a flip phone would be a better choice. Either that or one of those kids smart watches like a Gizmo if you want something you can track their location with.

    Remember the main purpose of a smartphone is to be online all the time, and children are geniuses at figuring out how to access things that are supposedly blocked or restricted