Just mix half-loud ads into every stream and remove it in a player by using a sophisticated, autoevolving one-time js/wasm +cookie algorithm.
This could become a genre, like rap when someone talks over music.
YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
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Re: YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
#72You can have my youtube-dl when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
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 (o…
> There is absolutely no way to stop pirating
Of course there is, but the regime have to be much more repressive than 1950s Soviet Union to achieve that.
> Mostly made through the 1950s and 1960s, ribs were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing prohibited music by foreign and emigre musicians banned from broadcast in the Soviet Union. Real medical X-rays, purchased or picked up from the trash from hospitals and clinics were used to create the recordings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_%28recordings%29
There weren't piracy in North Korea until 1990s AFAIK.
Re: YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
#73Re: YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
#74It might interest some of you to know that youtube-dl has an awesome archive feature which will allow you to scrape a playlist periodically and only download new additions to that playlist. So when I stumble across a track I like, I just add it to my “favourites” playlist, and my PC at home will automatically download it, convert it to MP3, trim any silence from the beginning and end of the track, attempt to tag it (…
For anyone else that wonders as I did, --download-archive downloaded.txt
downloaded.txt will be used to store a list of video IDs. Any ID listed will not be re-downloaded
Re: YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube audio isn't high quality though... I think it's 128k
I thought 1080p videos used 160kbps audio?
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.
Re: YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you don't think it possible for an inaudible DRM scheme to be embedded into the music? Perhaps a signal to any digital recorders? I wouldn't put it past Apple to forbid one Apple product from recording anything broadcast by another. This is already a thing in another medium: money. Digital printers, and some software packages, are trained to identify embedded signals to disrupt attempt to scan/print paper currency…
So you don't think it possible for an inaudible DRM scheme to be embedded into the music? This exists commercially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia I don't know if it's truly "inaudible", maybe some experts can detect it? But probably 99% of people can't.
There are cases where "inaudible" watermarks in paid audio downloads are actually audible[0], meaning that buying the FLAC download gives a worse experience than a properly ripped CD.
[0]: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermar...