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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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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Wow so we call downloading YouTube piracy?

I guess most content creators are pirates.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, that's stupid. I consider ripping songs from YouTube to be the modern equivalent of taping songs off the radio. The quality is poor.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Basically, but it's low hanging fruit. Kids not ripping a 20gb disco from pirate bay at school but they most certainly will download a song off YouTube.

    Shoot I remember back in the mid 2000s with my shitty mp3 player ripping music in any class with a computer.

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