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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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Downloading YouTube isn’t piracy lol it’s time shifting.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TiVo has entered the chat.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s that?

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

TiVo was an early digital video recorder that dominated the market for a while. Broadcasters brought lawsuits against the company saying the recording of videos was violating copyright laws, and advertisers hated it because you could skip commercials. TiVo argued in court that they weren’t pirating, but just time shifting the content. Similar arguments were used for people who ripped rented dvds and so on.