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submitted 7 months ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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 7 months ago

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

[-] FeliXTV27@feddit.ch 3 points 7 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 7 months ago
[-] jastyty@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

This is the way

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