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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's not how I would get a discography, a non YouTube artist (some international ones), a whole album or lossless though - or am I mistaken?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think he is talking about this

The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Makes sense, thanks for pointing it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Just FYI, yt-dlp does work with other sites, too. So you can get some pretty decent quality by downloading from bandcamp for example. But not all that what your asking for unfortunately...