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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I could be wrong but didn't a cut from blank tapes go to the industry tp 'make up for the losses'?

The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to "compensate" authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).

Ah that might have been it. I vaguely remember hearing about it at the time.