For most people there are good enough solutions for music without piracy.

MP3 0Day on private trackers covers everything.

I think it's still going. At the least, patched spotify is well.

Locating, storing, labelling, and potentially hosting pirated music is just not something people wanna do. Plus music streaming isn't a fragmented mess like video streaming is atm. I never stopped pirating tv and movies except for a brief window of time when Netflix was king, but music so easy and complete on every platform it isn't worth it.

I'm commenting to come back to this (am dumb, don't know how to save posts through wefwef)

RIP what.cd

I have stopped caring about artists and instead focus on sets, on Soundcloud.

If it's on Deezer https://free-mp3-download.net is your friend.