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Re:Record Labels Hit Internet Archive with New $400M+ Copyri... by wredue on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:56PM (#37102062)
It’s actually because torrenting is harder than downloading YouTube audio streams.

People want shit for free.

The number of people that openly state that they pirate music has contracted a little bit, but it’s nowhere near “non-existent”.

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Re:Record Labels Hit Internet Archive with New $400M+ Copyri... by OfSanguineFire on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:05PM (#37102149)
If downloading YouTube audio streams is what music piracy has become today, then I stand by my dismal remarks. YouTube audio is recompressed, even the highest-quality YT from yt-dlp --bestaudio is not up to the standards of yore, and you miss out on things like album-art scans.
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