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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by TAForObvReasons on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:46PM (#33429457)
Music piracy didn't stop because of the Napster shutdown. It just manifested itself in different ways. Now all you need to do is use youtube-dl to download the youtube video or soundcloud track or bandcamp album with the -x flag to extract audio. Both the software and the original media sources are legal. In fact, GitHub was forced to take a public stance on youtube-dl after a DMCA takedown request on the repo.

The biggest reason the laws can't possibly hope to stop the practice is:

> [MysteryInc152] told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2.

As those costs are driven down and the software is accessible to more people, distribution of the weights will not be needed.

Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by ilaksh on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:49PM (#33429495)
I think that one of the main reasons YouTube became so huge was music piracy.