Record labels sue popular YouTube audio-ripping site - Polidicks

[QUOTE=TestECull;51135230]What's complicated about 'Put empty casette in boombox, wait till desired song plays, press record'?[/QUOTE] It was even easier to just buy your music and have better quality than to wait for your preferred song to come on and record it. But yes, you're pretty much making my point. It was pretty easy back in the day to copy music without paying for it, but it was even easier to just buy it legitimately. Most people couldn't be bothered to set up a blank tape and wait for all the songs they wanted to come on, even if it wasn't particularly difficult. It's not about making ripping music impossible or even difficult, just not so easy that it's preferable to a $0.99 download for ordinary people.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51133411]at that point you may as well either commit suicide or try to get a new identity[/QUOTE] Or you could gift all your possessions to your friends and then declare bankruptcy.

[QUOTE=JXZ;51128527]after looking for like 2 minutes, i can confirm that youtube does not have download links[/QUOTE] Its obscured obviously, but there is a known way to get it. It links to the video used when your browser doesn't support DASH videos and instead is a link to the complete MP4 file. Sites like this exploit that function to download the video and convert it to an audio file. The only way to stop this is if Youtube starts adding DRM to the videos and/or ends non-DASH playback functionality.

[QUOTE=.Vel;51136084]Getting a casette and boombox. It's just hassle most people would rather not go through.[/QUOTE] I was referring to their heyday, which was the context of the post to which I replied. But, here's the rub: It's 2016 [i]and I can still buy empty casettes at walmart.[/i] Serious, I shit you not, they still sell them, tucked away in a corner of the electronics department next to the breakroom entrance. And a good boombox? Authentic 80s gear sells on eBay for 40 bucks shipped, knock yourself out. I've got one on my dresser because the damned thing sounds way better than any new radio of the same price, and itt'l last longer besides. It's, if anything, easier to record FM onto cassette now than it was then. :v: and I could put a casette recorded as such to use, since my truck's head unit accepts them and is too shitty/ancient to have anything better as an aux input!

[QUOTE=Demache;51137897]Its obscured obviously, but there is a known way to get it. It links to the video used when your browser doesn't support DASH videos and instead is a link to the complete MP4 file. Sites like this exploit that function to download the video and convert it to an audio file. The only way to stop this is if Youtube starts adding DRM to the videos and/or ends non-DASH playback functionality.[/QUOTE] Which still wouldn't help, if your PC can show it on monitor then your PC can save it to file.