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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by dylan604 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:16PM (#29926985)
>It's not generally that great a quality right?

You just described youtube in general. As the old saying goes, "content is king". Look at VHS (if you're old enough to remember). As bad of a quality as it was, everyone used it. Pros would complain about how bad it looked, but the mass populace was just fine with it. Youtube is the same way. In the beginning, the quality was soooo bad, but users didn't care because it gave them endless content.

Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by justsomehnguy on Thursday January 13, 2022 @08:57PM (#29929708)
> Look at VHS

Pfft, people bought 5-in-1 DVDs. People bought 10-in-1 DVDs. Average Joe doesn't care about "quality", he wants the content.

Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by dylan604 on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:40AM (#29931281)
5 movies encoded to fit on a DVD-9 will still look much better than the typical VHS. They will also sound much better. Comparing DVD to VHS will always have DVD winning, unless the content was encoded from VHS.
Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by plussed_reader on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:42PM (#29927291)
See: cell phone speakers.