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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSources to purchase mp3s?
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    9 days ago

    mp3va.com has been listed in U.S. Trade Representative annual reports as being unauthorized to sell music. Legal experts have explicitly stated that while MP3VA claims to operate legally under Ukrainian copyright laws, “it is not legal for them to sell this music in the United States”.

    I’ve never used the site, but there seems to be an argument here regarding moral law and legalities within the United States.

    But the site claims that:

    Service www.Mp3va.com pays full-scale author’s royalties to owners of pieces of music, trademarks, names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site.

    If that’s the case, I think the OP should feel good about it.

    Buying off a site like them likely pays out more per user than listening to the same songs on a streaming platform.










  • I know Fairphone would probably be quite expensive even for the price it offers if it ever came to my country, but for the update cycle they offer and repairable build (looks at my broken screen of old Nokia), it actually makes sense.

    This is why I got a Framework laptop, and why I wouldn’t mind getting a Fairphone. I’m tired of planned obsolescence, and the e-waste it needlessly creates.


  • Showroom7561@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.worldJust got a Fairphone 6, AMA
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    30 days ago

    I don’t want to import, I want to purchase from an authorized local dealer with warranty and parts available in Canada.

    Even clove says that you’ll need to send the phone back to the UK, at your expense, for any warranty related work. That’s not only incredibly time consuming and costly, but it would negate any environmental benefit of owning the phone!

    I can’t imagine how expensive and delayed parts would be, again, missing the point of having a repairable phone.

    The demand for at least North American consumers is there. I wish Fairphone would just do it already.


  • Showroom7561@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.worldJust got a Fairphone 6, AMA
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    30 days ago

    No questions, but I’m so fucking pissed that Fairphone is on their 6th generation and still doesn’t offer them globally.

    I have to replace my wife’s dying phone, and it kills me that I’ll end up buying some garbage, probably from Google, that will end up as garbage in a few years.

    Please, bring these to Canada! 😭😭😭





  • I used to run software on an old phone that basically worked as a camera NVR.

    At some point the battery swelled up and I’m glad my house didn’t burn to the ground. I only noticed it because the glass screen protector on that phone had popped off from the screen flexing under pressure 😮

    As long as you have a way of monitoring your phones, or at least physically isolating them from important things, then you could probably do it without many risks.