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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] 6 points 7 months ago

sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs

you guys use sites for that? I just use vpn + yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Soulseek for life! There should be a documentary about this because…. how? How has this been able to go this strong for so long? One of the first installs on any new OS I spin up. And when it comes to supporting the artists? Live shows and merch, when possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because they dont advertise the fact that theyre a music sharing platform. Its the most basic possible p2p platform that can exist and they dont seek the laws attention like Napster did.

They also comply with requests to blacklist certain artist search results. Try searching for the Beatles on slsk, you dont get any results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My searches for Michael Jackson also gets zero hits which I thought was bizarre. This explains it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Search for album names

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, word of mouth. I love my band shirts. It's always a great conversation starter. I have SXM, that's how I learned about Motionless in White, Beartooth, Starset, and Ice Nine Kills.

But I also have my own collection on my 1tb sd card in my phone.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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

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