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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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[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

What are the two things?

[-] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

Share your music library, download directly from other users library. Both are compatible, just different clients.

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

It's a direct p2p connection to a single user for downloads. It's not swarm style like bittorrent. It's also a great resource for really rare / out of print stuff.

I used it without a vpn for years and never got a single nastygram from my ISP. I think I started with a beta release back around 2000 because I used to be cool like that.