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tracerbulletx ◴[15 Mar 25 20:30 UTC] No.43374959[source]▶
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
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jjulius ◴[15 Mar 25 21:21 UTC] No.43375226[source]▶
I'd say it's less people's fault and more Google's for driving people to want something like it.
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Gigachad ◴[15 Mar 25 21:37 UTC] No.43375322[source]▶
Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.
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chii ◴[16 Mar 25 03:34 UTC] No.43376778[source]▶
netflix (initially at least), spotify and steam have all shown that it's not a money problem, but a service problem.

Good services will not get pirated.

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Mindwipe ◴[16 Mar 25 08:01 UTC] No.43377521[source]▶
What?

Literally all those services have piracy problems, and pretty much any time piracy drops it's because of more effective DRM, not service.

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1. lurk2 ◴[16 Mar 25 11:31 UTC] No.43378210[source]▶
> and pretty much any time piracy drops it's because of more effective DRM, not service.

Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

Music purchased on iTunes used to come with DRM. There were programs to get rid of it but they got shut down by Apple and were not easily accessible. Consumers pushed back on DRM and Apple eventually got rid of it.

Rather than leading to widespread piracy, most people just started renting their music from Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.