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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I could be wrong but didn't a cut from blank tapes go to the industry tp 'make up for the losses'?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to "compensate" authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ah that might have been it. I vaguely remember hearing about it at the time.