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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] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

if there was a way to get spotify with at least CD quality and the artists getting the rest of the money that spotify doesn't already take, more people would probably pay for it.

i am in a spotify family plan already, but i get that paying 12 bucks a month for 320 kbit/s and getting the artist fucked over is too much.

it's a thing of morals for many people, like with steam. steam doesn't actively fuck both the developer and the user over, they just take a 30% cut. you could argue about if that's too much, but i'm fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In terms of cents per stream, Tidal definitely compansates the most at 4x more than Spotify and 10x more than Deezer. Plus if you VPN to Nigeria on account creation, it's only $4 a month. You can then use tidal-dl to download music and you can use *arr Scripts to download music using Lidarr.

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

Does this vpn trick really work? I tried it on some other things and it never worked. It takes the location from the credit card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you only have to turn it on for account creation. Turn it off when inputting payment details.

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

Weirdly, that's bandcamp today. Apparently they're doing a thing where everything you buy today, they will give their usual cut to the artist too.

Shame it's not all the time, but I guess bandcamp needs to pay for servers, etc.