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What? I find plenty of jazz and classical music on youtube. yt-dlp -x is your friend.

I find it amusing that youtube can be the source of my "pirated" music and get away with it. But the piratebay guys got their lives smashed to pieces.

But that I guess, is our civilization today. One set of rules for politicians and corporations, and one set for the slaves.



See my sibling comment.

Yes, if the owner uploads somthing to yt and\or if the composition in public domain - it will be there. But that's it.

For example you have Netherlands Bach Society on Youtube. And I most likely can upload a rare Chaliapin's recording.

But:

- this one big "IF".

- this won't work same way for some rare Michael Jackson composition, for example.


TPB were actively advocating and facilitating the upload of owned content. YT reacts to takedown requests and even re-directs advertising revenue to the rights holders.

You know TPB is a company right? They even run a paid VPN service. And half of their business was "bulletproof hosting".


Plenty of pirate material on yt, and I couldn't care less about what organizational format tpb have. I'll support them against Google every day of the week, since they are not hellbent on creating a socialist surveillance society.




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