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While it's of course easier to do it on the web, the innate locality of pirate stations has a certain appeal. And of course the cat and mouse game and the "illegality" of it makes them feel more special then just a random webstream

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There is also the question of discoverability, especially unsought discovery.

Nobody casually scrolls through urls and and finds a radio station.

I suspect people don't do that with radios anymore either but it spreads through word of mouth

Interesting, why do you think that? My assumption is that it would basically be the same as always.

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