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Originally Posted by mineistaken
For listening via youtube of course it is ok, I was talking about burning songs into mp3 player for off line listening, or making CD for your car it is not enough for most.
Different thing - youtube is rarely used for "real" music listening. Rather than just getting to know the songs etc. Maybe before buying or "torrenting" real mp3 quality.
I mean would you burn mp3s from youtube quality? You might but you would still have that thing in your mind that you have crapy quality and for music quality is far far far far far far far more important than for porn scenes.
2 VERY different things:
If people want pirate porn they just go to some tube. If they want to pirate music it is not enough to go to some tube. Very different things.
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The gear you have also plays a big role in it. If you have some crappy, low quality headphones you likely won't be able to tell the difference between a low bitrate rip and a very high quality recording. If you have higher quality headphones (or speakers) you can.
I just used a free online ripper to rip a song from youtube and it had nearly the same bitrate as a typical song you would get from iTunes. Obviously there are many other variables. The quality of the sound in the youtube video being one of the major ones.
To me the people who are real audiophiles and huge music fans that have nice headphones and speakers aren't going to bother ripping songs from places like youtube. Like you said they may use it to find new artists or preview stuff before they buy it, but I still think there are plenty of people who would rather have it for free than pay for it.
If I'm a cheap bastard I can do exactly like you said. I can use youtube to find something new then use a torrent to download. These days it is fast and easy.
As I said before I think Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services along with things like iTunes and Amazon have curbed music piracy, but I think it is still alive and doing very well.