What caused the end to the golden age of music piracy?

One word, big nose, curly hair.

the convenience and accessibility of streaming

Been out of the loop. Is p2p still reliable?

This pretty much. That's how you compete with literally free, by making it cheap as fuck.

>Is p2p still reliable?
Soulseek is still very active

it ended?

i miss the old /rs/ board. good times.

/r/ing that edit of the rapidshare logo with the girugumesh guy's arm

It's better than ever now most ppl stream & attention is off piracy

Streaming and smartphones. Most people are fine with whatever quality they'd get from Youtube (let alone stuff now like Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music, etc.) If it's free, great, if it's $5 to $10 a month or whatever it is then most people will buy it. Just like why torrenting TV shows seems to be down; people will just go use Netflix or Hulu or Disney Plus, etc. or some combination. Normalfags aren't afraid of getting in any sort of trouble, it's super easy to use (I assume), and it's relatively cheap.

Possible, the only problem with piracy is when it is too much and companies get pissy about it. Otherwise they don't care, normies getting filtered is a good thing.

Where the fuck do I even get torrents nowaday?

zoomers are too lazy to download a torrent client, know the difference between audio types/bitrates, organize albums in a folder, etc. when they have streaming

rarbg for public torrents, otherwise there's private trackers for pretty much everything else

Zoomers cannot into piracy.

Most people use smartphones with internet access and streaming apps to listen to music on the go now rather than an mp3 player that can only play stored files.

jews love money more than pirates hate prison

Checked

discontinuing the ipod

I'm a zoomer with over 400gb of pirated music and no subscriptions to any streaming service.

I'm a zoomer with over 400gb of pirated music and no subscriptions to any streaing service. I also served two times on Irak.

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The quality of the music.

Why save a song that's so poorly written that it'll lose it's flavor after 30 listens when you can just stream it.

RIAA here, would you mind having a seat over there?

I don't believe you.

Ok consoomer

could've ended the thread there

The goal was not paying for music. That goal has been achieved.

mediafire rip

So where do I pirate YouTube fan covers that the artists are selling on iTunes?

YouTube.

Why would you want to download a song when you can just listen to it (and have the option of continuing with a playlist of other songs that have been algorithmically calculated to pair with it) on a streaming platform?

I pirated gigabytes of discographies during the early 2000s (remember Demonoid? That shit was awesome), and built a month-long playlist (literally thirty straight days of non-repeating music from my favorite artists of the prior three decades), and by the time that I fucked up trying to transfer the hard drive it was all on into a new desktop (i.e., a few months ago), it was like the problem never existed.

Anything I'm in the mood for, YouTube pretty much has it covered. You want Corridos? No problem. You feel like some Chamber Choir? How about dozens of hours of toe-curling chords from a variety of sources? Juice WRLD? Sadboi music? Techno? Classic Rock? Gregorian Chant? Ragas? Gangsta Rap? Cumbia? Ranchero? Greek Classical Songs? Orchestral pieces? Jazz? Indonesian Gamelan? It's all there.

It didn't used to be like this. But honestly, I haven't really missed my hard-drive, because there hasn't been a song I've wanted to hear that I couldn't find on YouTube, so I have no reason to illegally download anything, because there's just no point.

Thank you for attending my TED talk.

No, it's totally possible.

I'm a Xennial. 1977. We're sort of translators between zoomers and millenials, as seems to be our birthright, because we totally understand the sorts of crazy that our predecessors have been exposed to, but don't actually subscribe to them ourselves.

We like to be helpful when we can.

The thing about music is that it used to be much more tangible than it is now. I mean, there had to be some physical medium of transmission which you had to place in some sort of machine in order to play whatever song you wanted to hear.

I had an original "Thriller" on vinyl that I played on a barely-more-advanced-than-Fischer-Price Record Player (like, it was literally made out of plastic). I made mixtapes. Actual cassettes. My CD collection reached the hundreds before my Random House subscription ran out.

My dad gave me his old 8-track player, which amazed me with its ability to actually select one track out of all of them on the cassette, and made me wonder why I couldn't do that with the ones I was using at the time.

Having to live like this has its effects on you, honestly.

You start to feel like you have to own every song that you like, and ensure that there is some physical medium on which the song is recorded that is within your possession.

So, you hoard. Despite the fact that your entire collection might be just as easily (if not moreso) accessible with a quick google search, you develop a whole categorization system and arrange your music in whatever format it might be in.

The only troubling thing about this post is that they spelled "Iraq" with a k. Like, wtf is that about?

and you’re 100% not from the united states

Post your address so I can come over and piss all over your stupid apartment.

i use a pirated spotify apk to get unlimited streaming with no ads for free

Can i use this to save songs as tagged drm free mp3s?

It ended? If I can't get what I'm looking for on Soulseek then archive.org or smaller fan warez sites have me covered, I've literally never had problems even with finding obscure foreign albums.

Youtube/streaming compresses the shit out of all of the music there. You are listening to music in a sub-par, inefficient way. Now, go enjoy listening to your shitty streams on your phone.

this really

That's charmingly aggressive.

I will refrain from giving you my physical address so you can urinate in various locations throughout my apartment (you got that guess right, so congrats!) unless you will agree to clean up not only the mess that random urination makes, but also that which sudden explosive diarrhea makes.

Hell, make whatever mess you want to in my apartment as long as you are prepared to clean it up.

I've made some messes I don't know how to clean up.

>Youtube/streaming compresses the shit out of all of the music there. You are listening to music in a sub-par, inefficient way. Now, go enjoy listening to your shitty streams on your phone.

I mean, I have a desktop with two speakers. I hardly ever listen to music on my phone, and when I do it's because it's in my car that has two speakers.

But if it's all you have, what do you do?

I use Spotify but I still pirate things that isn't on there.

youtube for recs (especially those fire japanese recs)
spotify for shit i already know

megaupload and rapidshare had some shutdowns
private trackers became more private
legal streaming became way easier than trying to pirate

This, desu

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pirate bay still has mirrors.
>tpb.party/search
I use nyaa.si for animu tho

Imagine thinking you're some special rebel going against the 'jew' grain because you steal music
Why is Yas Forums so delusional about everything they do

Make absolutely sure you have a vpn though.
You should have one anyway, to be fair
ISPs get super fucking pissy and terratorial/start to grand stand with direct warnings if you torrent without.
Bunch of faggot corporations, I swear

This
Music piracy died with what.cd

These digits.

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Also, this, 100%. Archive.org, Soulseek, and Piratebay cover all my bases.
I just don't like Youtube quality, the selection isn't as omni-potent as some of the anons on this thread think, and I like having multiple harddrives and mega links of my personal folders.

Because American corporations suck.
And if you've ever seen that one jew produced movie, Mulan, you'll know that a single grain of rice can tip the scale, desu.

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