I think TOR would be more suitable than a VPN

Or perhaps they were in a touristic area which had lots of Americans.

The issue isn’t with curious individuals using AI recreationally (not my cup of tea though). The real problem is that corporations and enterprises use it to cut corners; i.e. big multinationals using AI for their ad campaigns; media outlets using AI illustrations instead of real footage; news and reports written completely with AI, and so forth. In short, (generative) AI is being used by capitalists to cut on labour costs when real humans could’ve done a better job.

It’s alright! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Also, new developers stepped up to maintain vimusic.

It’s so frustrating because I’ve always used them, because it makes sense to use them like any other linguistic device!

Not the convenience of the consumer but rather that of the provider. They don’t want you to pirate their games, not even sharing the disk. We don’t own what we pay for anymore.

That’s what I used to do before opting for online streaming.

Some minor gripes is that these files seemingly dont come with metadata, and you cant download a whole playlist or album at a time, both being huge bummers :/

I’m pretty sure yt-dlp can do this. Why not try Seal on F-droid.