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Originally Posted by Skuj
Don't you think that Tidal benefitted greatly because of a bunch of blatant bullshit? In the business world, if you willfully lie in order to benefit, this is fraud. It is fundamentally wrong what happened here.
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Tidal benefitted from advertising that wasn't wholly accurate in the long run. Big Fucking whoop. That makes them guilty of
advertising, which they didn't even officially do as a company. West said it would be one way, but critical and fan response and the non-stop demand from everyone everywhere that he change his plans made him rethink things.
This is like fucking suing Don Henley for saying the Eagles would reunite when hell froze over. Did hell freeze over when Hell Freezes Over came out? No.
Kanye West, as an individual, is allowed to make changes to how he distributes his product. Jay Z removed Blueprint from streaming services, when there was a reasonable expectation that it would "always" be available. Now it's not. Who's suing?
Jay Z also made a massive marketing campaign out of the Black Album being his "final record." You don't think some folks bought that album just because they thought it was the last HOV record? Don't you think that marketing tactic helped boost sales? And was it his last recoed? Uhhhh... No, not even fucking close.
The truly unforgivable dumbassness of this "lawsuit" is that NOBODY had to pay for the album, and anyone who joined just for TLOP had a FREE Tidal script for two months!!! It actually overlapped, so that they still had their free tidal when the record was out on Spotify and Apple. I guarantee you, 99% of those assholes opted to cancel their trial at the end of the free period and probably don't even know that the free period was extended because an OVERWHELMING majority of TLOP listeners were downloading pirated copies!!!
I don't think off the cuff comments on Twitter are legally binding. If they are, all Kanye had to do was tweet "I changed my mind," and that would be that.
Nobody lost money over TLOP except for Kanye West. When he saw that his record had been downloaded more individual times than any of his proper albjms have ever sold, he probably realized he needed to reconsider things. Now he's at least making a couple cents per listen from Spotify.
People are stupid and greedy and take advantage of any reason they can to take money. I'm no lawyer, but this suit is going to be fucking dismissed, because it's goddamn absurd. People are mad that the $0.00 they spent didn't get them free and exclusive access to something. Oh my, someone phone the police. This here's fraudulent behavior. Someone make a movie about this starring Steve Carrell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, because this is the next fucking low-end mortgage crisis. Oh how the world has suffered!!!
Give me a fucking break.