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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

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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.

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[-] mortrek@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Weird... yt-dlp -f "ba" url

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

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years 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.com 12 points 2 years 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.

[-] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Makes sense, thanks for pointing it out!

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years 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...

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