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Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene (animecorner.me)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Music piracy isn't rampant at all. It's the "immigrant crime is out of control" of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

And download all the music you want without an account using yt-dlp.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell I still sometimes find those old "lyrics" videos. Remember those? They all had that bluish teal background? Some of them survive to this day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They're still around for most big songs, old and new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, there was a particular format of them, I think they were made in Youtube's old built-in editor, there's a distinctive style that is extremely 2007.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The blue background is in fact a default for Windows Movie Maker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That would make sense for the era. The particular font scrolling effect most of them started with is likely also a built-in effect? I never once played with Windows Movie Maker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Hell, most of the major labels post tracks themselves to sponge up that sweet ad revenue. You can just use the tool of your choice to download the audio straight out of it if you decide you want to keep it for later.