Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It’s about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there’s many times more you can just install and play. And it’s all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It’s annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

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There is a small, but growing, number of retailers that have decided to apply this worldwide. Perhaps GOG is the most noteworthy. Look at anything that’s discounted there and you’ll see their “usual” price, as well as the lowest price they sold it for in the last 30 days before the current discount started. It’s a good rule, makes me more inclined to feel I’m actually getting a good deal, wish more places would do it

It varies based on the age of the video, newer ones do indeed have separate audio downloads. You can force audio only with

yt-dlp -f bestaudio <url>

This will cause the script to only consider audio-only formats, if bandwidth is a concern. However, how it decides which one is “best” is beyond me. For example, I tried one video and got a webm that contains only an audio track:

~ $ yt-dlp -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[download] Destination: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/movies/ytdl/20091025__Rick_Astley_-_Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up_Official_Music_Video.webm
[download] 100% of    3.28MiB in 00:00:00 at 6.91MiB/s

yt-dlp can just download the audio. It usually comes down in m4a at quality that I would describe as “very listenable”. So only the first of those three steps are mandatory if you do it that way.

yt-dlp -x <url>

I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.

No experience with it, but…

• Founded in 2018
• Copyright date says 2020
• Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
• Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

If you’re on desktop, look at the right hand side of your screen, scroll down a little, and click the link that says “Megathread”.

If you’re on mobile, tap the ⋮ in the top-right of the Piracy community, then tap Community Info. Scroll down a little, and tap the link that says “Megathread”.

It’s also the first link in the pinned post in the community.

Not an answer, but just to cover the bases:

I use https://audiobookbay.li/ but, as you say, it can be a bit unreliable, especially if the book isn’t recent.

There’s https://tokybook.com/ (from the Megathread) but its selection is somewhat lacking too.

From the old Megathread: “These are not recommended on this subreddit as trusted sites for various reasons, but the main reasons why igg-games is not recommended is due to their history of shady behavior”

Good bot

@remindme@mstdn.social 11 hours

You’re absolutely right, thanks :)

Just gonna throw https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe into the discussion - which is NewPipe, with extra features.

Doesn’t look all that silent to me?

The throwaway email providers I personally use are:

• If I want to receive ongoing messages and have the ability to reset passwords etc: DuckDuckGo
• If I don’t care what happens after the first email: Yopmail

Honestly, even as a Windows 11 user, the Films & TV app is the only way I’ve ever found. You could try youtube-dl but it’s unlikely to be able to bypass their DRM even if you can find a direct download link. I’d just go ahead and download it from another source, you already paid for it, you have the right to watch it IMHO.

Of particular note: This is the last version that will support macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), and 10.14 (Mojave). They’ll get an extended support release of Firefox 115 that’ll receive security updates for ~1 year. Source: mozilla.org