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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 2 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Google Removes 'Pirate' URLs from Users' Privately Saved Links * TorrentFreak tech
For music, such a service exists now. It's free, but you have to use a command-line program to download music from it: YouTube + yt-dlp.
YouTube has 99% of the music I would ever want to listen to. And they don't charge you to listen to any music in their catalogue (yt-dlp skips ads by default).
The music industry has tried to shutdown yt-dlp, but they failed rather spectacularly. And YouTube hasn't managed to stop people from downloading videos/music.
It is a rather silly situation, but it's super convenient once you learn how to use yt-dlp.
Personally I buy all my music. But unlike video content, for various reasons for the genres of music I like, it's easy to buy MP3's they you get to download and keep. Over the years I've probably spent hundreds, maybe low thousands, of dollars on music downloads.
If I could buy video downloads, I'd spend a lot more money buying the shows I watch. But since you don't get to keep streaming downloads, I don't.
For the most part, books can't be bought as unrestricted EPUBs either. So again, I rarely buy ebooks. But sometimes you can, and on occasion I've bought they way.
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