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

submitted 7 months ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.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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[-] JuanR@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago

I used to do lots of piracy back in the days. I am so glad those days are behind me and have not been big on the scene. What would be some sites to avoid to not fall in the trap of being a criminal. I love giving companies all of my money and do not ever want to go back to my old ways. Please help me with a nice list of things to avoid.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You totally don't want to just learn Linux command line and how to use the youtube-dl/yt-dlp packages through WSL or a Linux distro, that would deny corporations all of your money and be way too convenient. Thankfully it's not intuitive to learn or there would be so much more piracy!

[-] _I_@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Yt-dlp is also available on Windows. No reason to spin up wsl or a Linux distro. There are also plenty of yt-dlp apps with GUI for those who don't want to use a terminal.