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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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[–] Unabart@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Soulseek for life! There should be a documentary about this because…. how? How has this been able to go this strong for so long? One of the first installs on any new OS I spin up. And when it comes to supporting the artists? Live shows and merch, when possible.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yes, word of mouth. I love my band shirts. It's always a great conversation starter. I have SXM, that's how I learned about Motionless in White, Beartooth, Starset, and Ice Nine Kills.

But I also have my own collection on my 1tb sd card in my phone.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because they dont advertise the fact that theyre a music sharing platform. Its the most basic possible p2p platform that can exist and they dont seek the laws attention like Napster did.

They also comply with requests to blacklist certain artist search results. Try searching for the Beatles on slsk, you dont get any results.

[–] biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My searches for Michael Jackson also gets zero hits which I thought was bizarre. This explains it

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Search for album names