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You can have my youtube-dl when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

anoncoward111 8y ago
Right? Also I torrent the shit out of things anyway when I need non-potato-tier audio quality. You can have my Transmission and SkyTorrents over my dead body!
- bArray 8y ago
  To be completely honest, I can't really tell the difference between a high bit rate MP3 and a WAV file. For videos I can see the value though, anything below 720 is quite obvious.
  - y4mi 8y ago
    YouTube audio isn't high quality though... I think it's 128k
    - anoncoward111 8y ago
      This is the correct answer. You can hear the compression when cymbals are ringing out in a song quite clearly
    - arbie 8y ago
      I thought 1080p videos used 160kbps audio?
      - lozf 8y ago
        Even 720p videos can include up to 192kbps AAC audio, but who knows how many times it gets transcoded between upload and delivery in various sizes and formats.
- danmg 8y ago
  skytorrents shutdown last year.
  - anoncoward111 8y ago
    skytorrents.lol still working for me friend
    - danmg 8y ago
      Nice. Thanks.
bArray 8y ago
I was just thinking "nobody tell them about youtube-dl"! I wouldn't be surprised if half of these YouTube-to-MP3 sites are using it in the background - why wouldn't they? Should be pretty easy to containerize the program. I actually wonder sometimes how they are able to provide these conversions given progressions in ad-blockers. There is absolutely no way to stop pirating. Long before the internet was fast enough (or even existing) people were recording songs with phones, copying tapes, ripping records, etc. Anything a human can hear can be recorded. Anything that a human can see can be recorded. It's a losing battle. There is evidence to suggest it helps improve sales overall [1] [2]. Like most laws, this will probably have the biggest impact on poorer people who can't afford to buy every single at the price point they charge. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy... [2] https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...
- tim333 8y ago
  I don't think they need to stop pirating so much as hassle people pirating sufficiently that a decent percentage still pay up.
  - zeta0134 8y ago
    If they'd just make the content available on Spotify, which all of my pirate friendly but otherwise non-technical friends use, they'd have their conversion. Piracy continues to solve the discovery and "listen to just this one song I like" problem that the industry ignores, and until the paid options are as useful as the pirate versions, the battle will continue. (Also, I'm ignoring some philosophical things: I like to own things and not stream them for bandwidth reasons, and tech folks tend to not like DRM, but the general public doesn't seem to care much about those things.)
- ttsda 8y ago
  Usually they will just fetch the YouTube direct mp4 link and redirect to that, in order to save bandwidrh.
- 8y ago

Right? Also I torrent the shit out of things anyway when I need non-potato-tier audio quality. You can have my Transmission and SkyTorrents over my dead body!

bArray 8y ago
To be completely honest, I can't really tell the difference between a high bit rate MP3 and a WAV file. For videos I can see the value though, anything below 720 is quite obvious.
- y4mi 8y ago
  YouTube audio isn't high quality though... I think it's 128k
  - anoncoward111 8y ago
    This is the correct answer. You can hear the compression when cymbals are ringing out in a song quite clearly
  - arbie 8y ago
    I thought 1080p videos used 160kbps audio?
    - lozf 8y ago
      Even 720p videos can include up to 192kbps AAC audio, but who knows how many times it gets transcoded between upload and delivery in various sizes and formats.
danmg 8y ago
skytorrents shutdown last year.
- anoncoward111 8y ago
  skytorrents.lol still working for me friend
  - danmg 8y ago
    Nice. Thanks.

bArray 8y ago

I was just thinking "nobody tell them about youtube-dl"! I wouldn't be surprised if half of these YouTube-to-MP3 sites are using it in the background - why wouldn't they? Should be pretty easy to containerize the program. I actually wonder sometimes how they are able to provide these conversions given progressions in ad-blockers. There is absolutely no way to stop pirating. Long before the internet was fast enough (or even existing) people were recording songs with phones, copying tapes, ripping records, etc. Anything a human can hear can be recorded. Anything that a human can see can be recorded. It's a losing battle. There is evidence to suggest it helps improve sales overall [1] [2]. Like most laws, this will probably have the biggest impact on poorer people who can't afford to buy every single at the price point they charge. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy... [2] https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...

tim333 8y ago
I don't think they need to stop pirating so much as hassle people pirating sufficiently that a decent percentage still pay up.
- zeta0134 8y ago
  If they'd just make the content available on Spotify, which all of my pirate friendly but otherwise non-technical friends use, they'd have their conversion. Piracy continues to solve the discovery and "listen to just this one song I like" problem that the industry ignores, and until the paid options are as useful as the pirate versions, the battle will continue. (Also, I'm ignoring some philosophical things: I like to own things and not stream them for bandwidth reasons, and tech folks tend to not like DRM, but the general public doesn't seem to care much about those things.)
ttsda 8y ago
Usually they will just fetch the YouTube direct mp4 link and redirect to that, in order to save bandwidrh.
8y ago