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Heck, almost everything is available for free on YouTube.

by taneq 3mo ago

konart 3mo ago
This is very far from truth unless you only listen freshs pop music. And even then it is easy to click a song only to receive "not available in your region".
- mghackerlady 3mo ago
  no, I've found many an album on youtube that isn't anywhere else and was uploaded by a random guy 10 years ago
  - konart 3mo ago
    Yes, same can be said for Vkontakte, for example (thanks to its piracu police and user uploads) But this is kind of a different story. Likewise at somepoit Russia passed a law that made all soviet movies and cartoons public and obviously studios started using YT as their hostding platform. But this is not a default case. Just a lucky coincidence.
  - marysol5 3mo ago
    That's still piracy
- abc123abc123 3mo ago
  What? I find plenty of jazz and classical music on youtube. yt-dlp -x is your friend. I find it amusing that youtube can be the source of my "pirated" music and get away with it. But the piratebay guys got their lives smashed to pieces. But that I guess, is our civilization today. One set of rules for politicians and corporations, and one set for the slaves.
  - konart 3mo ago
    See my sibling comment. Yes, if the owner uploads somthing to yt and\or if the composition in public domain - it will be there. But that's it. For example you have Netherlands Bach Society on Youtube. And I most likely can upload a rare Chaliapin's recording. But: - this one big "IF". - this won't work same way for some rare Michael Jackson composition, for example.
  - marysol5 3mo ago
    TPB were actively advocating and facilitating the upload of owned content. YT reacts to takedown requests and even re-directs advertising revenue to the rights holders. You know TPB is a company right? They even run a paid VPN service. And half of their business was "bulletproof hosting".
    - abc123abc123 3mo ago
      Plenty of pirate material on yt, and I couldn't care less about what organizational format tpb have. I'll support them against Google every day of the week, since they are not hellbent on creating a socialist surveillance society.

Heck, almost everything is available for free on YouTube.

by taneq 3mo ago

Heck, almost everything is available for free on YouTube.

This is very far from truth unless you only listen freshs pop music. And even then it is easy to click a song only to receive "not available in your region".

mghackerlady 3mo ago
no, I've found many an album on youtube that isn't anywhere else and was uploaded by a random guy 10 years ago
- konart 3mo ago
  Yes, same can be said for Vkontakte, for example (thanks to its piracu police and user uploads) But this is kind of a different story. Likewise at somepoit Russia passed a law that made all soviet movies and cartoons public and obviously studios started using YT as their hostding platform. But this is not a default case. Just a lucky coincidence.
- marysol5 3mo ago
  That's still piracy
abc123abc123 3mo ago
What? I find plenty of jazz and classical music on youtube. yt-dlp -x is your friend. I find it amusing that youtube can be the source of my "pirated" music and get away with it. But the piratebay guys got their lives smashed to pieces. But that I guess, is our civilization today. One set of rules for politicians and corporations, and one set for the slaves.
- konart 3mo ago
  See my sibling comment. Yes, if the owner uploads somthing to yt and\or if the composition in public domain - it will be there. But that's it. For example you have Netherlands Bach Society on Youtube. And I most likely can upload a rare Chaliapin's recording. But: - this one big "IF". - this won't work same way for some rare Michael Jackson composition, for example.
- marysol5 3mo ago
  TPB were actively advocating and facilitating the upload of owned content. YT reacts to takedown requests and even re-directs advertising revenue to the rights holders. You know TPB is a company right? They even run a paid VPN service. And half of their business was "bulletproof hosting".
  - abc123abc123 3mo ago
    Plenty of pirate material on yt, and I couldn't care less about what organizational format tpb have. I'll support them against Google every day of the week, since they are not hellbent on creating a socialist surveillance society.