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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty current on technology but honestly never heard of Youtube-To-MP3 conversion.

Thinking this may be the ticket to cutting the cord with Spotify, but as others have suggested, I fully intend to buy tracks of my favorite indie folks too.

Do artists actually get a decent cut from Band Camp?

[–] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bandcamp, according to their help page, takes a 15% cut from purchases until the artist makes 5k in sales, in which case they take 10%

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bandcamp was recently sold as far as I'm aware. Also, after a recent purchase I made from them I had my credit card frauded. Can't say with 100% assurance that it was because of something going on with bandcamp, but it's my belief it was them. Something seems off from before, so I've decided to take a break from buying anything from them for a while.

[–] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They were bought by epic games recently, but I don't think it was bandcamp that stole your card info

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Ah. And you're probably right. Just a coincidence.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

If you're on linux use yt-dlp, it's the tits, works on bandcamp too. If you're on windows - they may have a win version, idk, check though because it rules.

Can't answer the other question though, sorry.