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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What was the service you could upload your own. Playlist and songs and share with friends? Last.fm? Something like that, shit was awesome.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

There’s a federated platform called Funkwhale that’s very similar to that.

https://www.funkwhale.audio/

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I think last.fm might still exist. I just used it for the 'scrobbling' — stats way before Spotify Wrapped was a thing