Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

Blxter@lemmy.zip to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 619 points –
Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube
wired.com

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

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

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?

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.

Just FYI, yt-dlp does work with other sites, too. So you can get some pretty decent quality by downloading from bandcamp for example. But not all that what your asking for unfortunately...