Several movie and TV sites have come and go where you can just visit and watch without even creating an account. Quality might not be as good as a paid service and they are no doubt in the grey-to-red zone legally. I don’t see the same service for music.
Why do you think is there such a difference in trends?
The radio has been playing free music since 1906.
None of them could compete with Youtube
So Pluto TV can compete against YT with their old school cartoons? Because I love those damn old cartoons that they have lol.
People don’t like to hustle with pirate sites if given reasonable alternatives. Currently youtube, spotify, apple music and online radio stations fulfill these demands. Just like netflix originally killed most of pirate streaming, it was easier just to pay a bit to get all the content, then content providers decided each to create their one limited content service and pirates were back in business. Once you’ll have to pay a different providers to hear different songs you’ll start seeing more and more pirate music streaming sites.
I’m not sure I understand. You can stream music for free on Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, Bandcamp, YouTube, and probably several other services. Not to mention the thousands of radio stations you can stream. It seems like there are exponentially more music streaming options compared to video. If you’re asking about sites where you can stream without ads, I’m guessing those exist too, but I suspect most people are either willing to listen to ads or pay for ad-free with one of those services.
RIAA was famously litigious but music was also much more widely available to pirate so it made it harder for streaming services to offer enough value to tempt users away from piracy. Services like pandora that (originally, at least) offered good value in terms of music discovery were the only ones to really offer a compelling reason not to pirate.
When it comes to movies, though, the much larger file sizes kept piracy a more niche activity for longer. When I was in uni pretty much everyone was running Kazaa or similar for music, but only techy folks would put in the effort to pirate videos.
The payout for audio ads is a lot less than video advertising. It’s just not as profitable to do an entirely ad-supported music streaming service as a video one
For Creative Commons music,
Jamendo Radio has many genre channels of radio to listen to:
What are you talking about? YouTube? The Pirate Bay? The radio? I’m honestly don’t understand why these sites don’t count.
I love Pirate Bay and torrents, but there’s barely any music there. The rare time I find something there, it has 0 seeds.
Soulseek, on the orher hand…
Availability. You can just straight up search on YouTube to find a song and find it. Same goes on Spotify. If you’re not an audiophile, no one would care if the song quality is low. If you listen to well known songs, you can likely find the music files available on public trackers and youtube.
If you care about a certain style of music not available on public tracker and want higher quality files; you likely can find a private tracker invite through people that listen to it. So there’s no reason for both people to use a music piracy site.
but there are… many only know Spotify but we got SoundCloud aswell, deezer is free and has many more Songs. i sonst usw any oft that but many people forget Theres not just spotify
