"Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent" OK. That's not how that works.
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They were meaning that they released via BitTorrent the tracks which were scraped from Spotify
Or they don't understand the topic
Actually, for a while Spotify did use the BitTorrent protocol for content delivery. So this isn't too far-fetched.
Spotify itself started by using pirated music, so this is all a bit ironic.
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They did it guys!!! Piracy no more /s
Only billionaires and friends allowed
Gee I wonder why warehouses keep catching fires lately…
Funny, the statute $2500 should be for the circumvention act, which was likely singular, not per file obtained during or as a result of the act. And the $150k is ridiculous in and of itself, even if for all files obtained. What a strange world we live in.
Spotify built a system of control in order to profit a few at a cost to many, perhaps everyone else.
Someone broke that system in order to benefit many, possibly at the cost of some of their ability to profit from their system of control--if they didn't lose customers, or prospective customers, they didn't experience any financial loss, or a loss in their ability to maintain their system of control (which is still very much in place and working).
Either way, nobody was hurt.
But the person who acted selflessly to benefit of society in general is punished.
Because... We, as a society, celebrate and work effortlessly to maintain complex systems of abuse in order to satisfy our greed or the greed of others. All despite being taught in school not to lie to and bully each other, and to share with and care for each other.
As a species: We are bat shit fucking crazy!
No, to enable (in the addiction sense) the greed of others. Not "satisfy." Because it can never be satisfied: they will take and take and take and take until there is nothing left, and still demand more.
Fuck Spotify and their ICE recruitment ad bullshit.
I like their attitude.
A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that's a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.
But it does make life a bit harder for Anna's archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won't.
ChatGPT play a song that sounds suspiciously like enter sandman.
These greed demons make me more of a socialist everyday. America is fucked in this AI race. If only the .001%% can create AI by owning all the property rights, how do they expect a society to collaborate & innovate?
Oh, right, I should send them some monies.
Last I heard they only released the data on what they had, when did they release the actual music?
They never released music, just metadata. It doesnt matter. This injunction is just legal posturing. They have no jurisdiction to tell foreign domain registrars to do anything. It takes an actual cop walking in on a data center to finally seize a site (surrender hard drives, reroute domains, etc.) If the server is in another country, it takes years to go through the red tape. If the country is not collaborative, it will never happen, specially since piracy is seen as a very low priority issue in the grand scheme of cyber crime.
it never will. like "illicit" subs went down on reddit in '16, they fled to foreign sites so the us cant touch them,