Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn't fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don't get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don't have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.

We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.

[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I found the easiest way to pirate music was to just grab stuff from youtube. Maybe in the future Freetube will have an option to download whole playlists, but in my middle age I am way less likely to download the whole album for "context."

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

YouTube (via yt-dlp) is my fallback for if I can't find what I need on Soulseek.

The quality is fine, but I likes my FLACs.

[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

DLP is pretty good and has a lot of non youtube utility. For those at home, I like Stacher7 for interfacing with yt.dlp without using a command line.

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