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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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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My philosophy goes like this: Pay for the hardware, get the content for free.

[–] FeliXTV27@feddit.ch 3 points 10 months ago

That's how it is in Switzerland: you pay a small piracy tax on every storage medium, in return downloading films and series is legal (but not uploading, though I never got a problem with torrenting)

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jastyty@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

This is the way