[cramcgrab]

Don’t copy that floppy!

[jacquesm]

Piracy is killing music.

[hamdingers]

Streaming is killing music piracy. The scene is a shell of its former self.

[Minor49er]

Hardly. Soulseek has been gaining interest in recent years, for one:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

[hamdingers]

Your link only shows past 5 years, so you're missing the hayday of music piracy, was this intentional?

Try this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...

Try with any music piracy (or hell, piracy in general) related search terms and you'll see a similar trend.

[aleph_minus_one]

You wouldn't download a car.

(I mean: You wouldn't steal a car. :-) ).

[_yb2s]

That was always such a silly argument, even more so with the rise of cheap and reliable 3D printing. I download, print, and use physical objects every week and don’t know or care what IP issues might exist as long as it works for its purpose. I can’t wait until the day comes when you can download and print a working car at home.

[kvemkon]

But such working cars from home will not be certified to participate at the public traffic and remain toys for driving on own private property.

[_yb2s]

No, it is possible to register a homemade car for use on public roads, pretty commonly done actually.

[kvemkon]

Then I'm surprised. It's much different to the usual situation when even mass made products are either banned or very limited, e.g. unicycles prohibited, e-scooters only up to 20 km/h, e-bikes only up to 25 km/h.

Regarding 3D made parts recently there was an accident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152941. One may expect increasing regulation. At least in the air.