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this brings up an interesting point. how difficult would it be to automate scraping off of one of these services?


easy, but what's the point? you can already get this content via non-legal means if you want. Any website scraping these urls and offering them for download will just get shut down or blocked. The streams are delivered in a way that makes it sufficiently difficult for normal users to just right click and save as, this is Good Enough. The people who can get around this can already get the music for free elsewhere.




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