spotify and major music labels should be sued for 13 trillion
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AI have made pirating legal, as long as you are not pirating for personal enjoyment. Isn’t that the defence the AI companies have used successfully?
Its just tribal politics.
While authority exists, everything it can touch is tribal politics and bullshit abstraction layers on top of them. Literally everything.
And terrorism. Tribal politics and terrorism.
Haha
May all lawyers involved die in the most horrible way possible. Actually scratch that, May all corporate lawyers regardless of involvement die in the most horrible way possible. ☺️
Be the change.
Change is about the only thing I got because of corporate greed
Apparently it's legal and acceptable to demand, through a court, enough money to destroy the world economy.
Seriously, if I were the judge I'd throw out the lawsuit until they come up with a remotely realistic number. As it is, it makes the whole lawsuit look like a joke.
The gratuitous vulgar nonsense of it is the point. Its LBJ slapping his cock on the desk during a serious meeting to drive home that you cant fucking stop him
The whole lawsuit is a joke.
And it should be permanently thrown out and not seen again because of how unserious that number is.
Is this the music industry asking for more than all the money in the world again?
Yes, I did say again.
Who is going to stop them? You?
LINE MUST GO UP. ANY LINE ACTUALLY. WE'RE FUCKIN DESPERATE.
- Businesses everywhere
Well, more along the lines of 10% of all the worlds money.
... very reasonable indeed 😜
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How do you even sue a shadow library? Aren't they like, behind 7 proxies?
You make an effort to contact the defended and bring the lawsuit to a judge. I don't think the court will grant the 13 billions judgement, that's a fantasy number but I don't think they will throw out the lawsuit either.
Ans since Anna's Archive won't show up in court Spotify will probably receive a default judgement which they can fold and shove up their ass.
They are probably going after companies affiliated with Anna's Archive next, like especially hosting providers.
Plus, they're using the neighbour's internet!
Checkmate, spotify!
we have stood with the artist community against piracy
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata
over a massive music data scrape
So when are you going to sue AI companies?
sue companies
I don't understand. This sentence does not parse. Thats like sending an email to the legal department of my kidneys.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata
200gb meta, 300tb music. Just 300tb not released yet. Might be, might not.
So when are you going to sue AI companies?
I think some sue suno and settle for money. And GEMA (germany) sue openai for songtext.
They're gonna shit when they find out about yt-dlp
13 fantastillion dollars
Spotify doesn't even have that much net worth how the hell one can steal more than that anyway? Also this isn't even stealing just a digital copy sent by spotify servers
Spotify doesn't even have that much net worth how the hell one can steal more than that anyway?
Because it was stolen already. By Anna's archive. Isn't that obvious!?
Probably theorizing every potential peer is pulling the whole archive.
So net worth * 100.000 potential peers = $$$
Perhaps Anna can pay them off with theoretical potential money too? Like, a big collection of monkey NFTs.
Or exposure.
Weird, I wasn't aware that Spotify OWNED this music. I'm fairly certain they they only license it.
Spotify and Major Music Labels
I guess if I were an artist I'd look at this and feel justified suing Spotify for 1 billion dollars for the lack of protection of my music.
I assume any contracts detailing the guarantees of Spotify's DRM are clear that it's not Fail-Safe.
A hole that allowed people to download songs and one that allowed someone to download the entire collection are two different things.
I assume they were literally the same mechanism, but AA just did it distributed across many accounts.
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