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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[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Princeofspace@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Anyone have a private tracker invite they’d share with me? Lidarr is the only arr I haven’t set up yet. Wouldn’t mind upgrading my library which I haven’t looked at since college.

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[–] Beegzoidberg@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year 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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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

13%!?!? WHOOOOOA!

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why doesn't youtube use DRM the way other Big Tech sites do?

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[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs

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

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder how hard it is to make full torrent webclient on mobile

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, no wonder, they took the Northern Boys off Spotify.

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