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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] 21 points 9 months ago (9 children)

So right now, I have Radarr and Sonarr automate everything to plex.

Is there a way, I can automate:

I add to Spotify playlist (I would keep Spotify free as it is good at finding things for me)

Something detects it

Something downloads it

It shows up in PlexAmp

Ive been paying for Spotify premium because I need it for my job and I don't want to spend a ton of time tweaking and naming things. I'd rather use PlexAmp and stop paying if possible but I'd like it to be easy (with a little work here and there) like my arr+plex setup.

Am I asking for something that doesn't exist?

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

Link for you to view the article: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fmusic-piracy-way-up%2F

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is t it funny how this seems to be happening in every industry possible? And it’s always reported with sUcH sURpRisE!

Like, we are being abused by capitalists. It feels good to steal. Because they can’t stop taking more and more from us, squeezing us harder and harder.

When you present us with ease of use and a reasonable price point, we are happy with the trade. But they need their returns to keep growing, so they keep squeezing us harder. Their investors demand the line go up. So they squeeze us harder. They need to cut costs, so they squeeze us harder.

It never stops. So we turn to theft. Because they’ve literally left us no choice.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow so we call downloading YouTube piracy?

I guess most content creators are pirates.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My philosophy goes like this: Pay for the hardware, get the content for free.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Shared a news about piracy, link to paywall Wired.com. the irony

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

apple killing ipods and deprioritising the itunes store probably contributed to this more than anything ironically

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Soulseek still going strong yes.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

This is not piracy. We've always been allowed to record e.g. radio and TV for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I think the RIAA has a different view on that. Huge push backs against recordable cassettes and VHS tapes when they were introduced.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Soulseek

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or Nicotine+ (a great Soulseek client)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What are the two things?

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

It's a direct p2p connection to a single user for downloads. It's not swarm style like bittorrent. It's also a great resource for really rare / out of print stuff.

I used it without a vpn for years and never got a single nastygram from my ISP. I think I started with a beta release back around 2000 because I used to be cool like that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Share your music library, download directly from other users library. Both are compatible, just different clients.

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

Whoopty doo 13% < shits crazy now, napsters back in business

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

wakes up in 2002

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The Napster has you, Neo

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