Control. Spotify uses dark UX patterns to prevent me curating and exploring a library of
Music that I love, instead trying to push artists on me that line their own pockets.
Self-hosted streaming (with downloads) is the way forward.
which is unfortunately becoming harder and harder with artists only releasing their media through DRM-locked platforms like Spotify/not on physical media that can be ripped/bandcamp.
At some point it’s PCM.
Indeed - and at some point it is also forced to pass through a literal air gap, vibrating molecules as it does so at various frequencies — another “attack vector”.