Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube
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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.

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.

  • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    341·
    10 months ago

    Weird… yt-dlp -f “ba” url

    Never need to use one of those horrible malware laden download sites again…

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      That’s not how I would get a discography, a non YouTube artist (some international ones), a whole album or lossless though - or am I mistaken?

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        I think he is talking about this

        The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

      • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Just FYI, yt-dlp does work with other sites, too. So you can get some pretty decent quality by downloading from bandcamp for example. But not all that what your asking for unfortunately…