The controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) gained national and international attention when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accepted an application filed by Energy Transfer Partners, a Texas-based developer behind the project.
The position of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is that the Dakota Access Pipeline violates Article II of the Fort Laramie Treaty, which guarantees the “undisturbed use and occupation” of reservation lands surrounding the proposed location of the pipeline. In 2015 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, operating as a sovereign nation , passed a resolution regarding the pipeline stating that “the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a serious risk to the very survival of our Tribe and … would destroy valuable cultural resources.”
To generate momentum for their cause and demonstrate their opposition to the pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe organized runs, horseback rides, and marches. Many Native Nations, along with non-Native allies, celebrities, and several politicians supported the movement and travelled to join DAPL protesters at the Sacred Stone Camp on the Standing Rock Reservation. Conditions at the camp became intense. North Dakota law enforcement officials and private guards hired by Energy Transfer Partners clashed with protestors, sometimes violently, and made hundreds of arrests.
On September 3rd, 2016, the Dakota Access Pipeline company used bulldozers to dig up part of the pipeline route that contained possible Native graves and burial artifacts; the land was subject to a pending legal injunction.
Protesters stormed the land and were attacked by a private security firm, armed with attack dogs and pepper spray.
The battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained vox
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray
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Wtf? I hate this. There’s an open source app, spotube, which gathers all music from YouTube/Spotify/etc and you can login to those accounts and manage your music, whatever. It doesn’t have any ads. So it’s piracy! And I only use it to download all the songs in my Spotify playlists, because while my cracked Spotify doesn’t run ads, it can’t download.
And this shit pops up when I mass-download.
If I was stupid enough to pay for Spotify premium, you think that’d be ‘supporting the artists’?! Spotify doesn’t pay em shit!
Pirating is good
I don’t blame them, they’re not blocking the downloads, they’re just making you acknowledge what you’re doing before you do it.
YouTube is the premier platform for small artists, people often download songs off YouTube when they can’t find them on streaming such as Bandcamp artists. I’m okay with music piracy, but if I have the money I will support artists I like and will actually get the money.
Yeah but they’re the… It’s like a coke dealer telling me “hey, you know you’re buying cocaine, right? You’re a bad person. Ait here it is tho”
And using it without downloading doesn’t support the artists either! There’s no ads or anything, so to be consistent, they’d need this same disclaimer before opening the app. Which begs the question why they’d make it in the first place
They’re making you acknowledge their stupid, bad bourgeois morality opinion on what you’re doing.