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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] 50 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I used to do lots of piracy back in the days. I am so glad those days are behind me and have not been big on the scene. What would be some sites to avoid to not fall in the trap of being a criminal. I love giving companies all of my money and do not ever want to go back to my old ways. Please help me with a nice list of things to avoid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You totally don't want to just learn Linux command line and how to use the youtube-dl/yt-dlp packages through WSL or a Linux distro, that would deny corporations all of your money and be way too convenient. Thankfully it's not intuitive to learn or there would be so much more piracy!

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

Yt-dlp is also available on Windows. No reason to spin up wsl or a Linux distro. There are also plenty of yt-dlp apps with GUI for those who don't want to use a terminal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Didn't realize, good to know, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You want a good paid VPN first. Mullvad is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

VPNs see everything you do, and you pay them for it. I don't understand how people don't see the irony there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they in theory see everything someone does, but in the case of mullvad they have no idea who you are

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

Could you say how Mullvad differs from ProtonVPN? I have it with my mail subscription and it seems pretty good. I don't know much about vpns though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

haven't looked into protonvpn much, but it's more or less a different company providing the same service. I imagine the differences aren't too significant if you trust both companies