I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?๐ง
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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"Condemn" or "condone"? While similar sounding, those two words have basically opposite meaning. Yay English!
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How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
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I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can't imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it'll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim "preservation", I do have to question the motives of stuff like this...
Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.
I mean, it seems like the perfect avenue to replicate Stremio / Kodi but for music
I guess it's easier packaged in a torrent rather than individual downloads, but I do question why anyone would need this if all they were doing was training AI, as everything is already available on YouTube for free. You don't need to hack a company to get the audio. Now if you're a human trying to actually listen to the songs, obviously the Spotify torrent will sound much better, assuming the hack captured the higher quality audio streams from Spotify. All the youtube downloaders sound like crap because its like 128kbps m4a (at least on newpipe, though you can do 160kbps opus if you want)
Same it seems useless to me. The real value is knowing how songs relate to each other in terms of being played before/after other songs, and that's only available via internal datasets that they could never scrape anyway.
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not sure why you want that much music most of it garbage. i would like some of the podcasts that people dont post anywhere else though. all hail the data hoaders.
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Fuck... Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes
The price for ~~restored~~ refurbished HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so ago
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I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?
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Wasnโt all of this shit already available as torrents?
No.
Not everything got torrented after music streamers came into prominence. (Though chances are pretty good you could rip an MP3 off Youtube for whatever you're looking for.)
Ripping Mp3s off YouTube Music Videos is without a doubt the worst method of piracy I've ever heard of.
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Has anyone tried to self host this? Of course, hosting 300tb isn't practical, so any solution would need to download the metadata and songs on demand.