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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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[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

DRM sucks. We don't need more of it.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

google sucks too so why aren't they using the thing that sucks?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

If that was adequate to explain Youtube's decision-making, the platform would be unrecognizably different for all of the terrible things Youtube didn't do because it would be -- and indeed was -- terrible