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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Or Nicotine+ (a great Soulseek client)

What are the two things?

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

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.