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

submitted 6 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] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Weird... yt-dlp -f "ba" url

Never need to use one of those horrible malware laden download sites again..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 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] 10 points 6 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] 4 points 6 months ago

Makes sense, thanks for pointing it out!