Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

blondebimboboi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ya this is sure the beginning of the end for them. They aren’t an “AI” company so the full force of the government will come after them now that they have been named in a mainstream publication.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re decentralized, though. Hammer them down and a mirror will pop right up. Clearly they are also willing to work with places that are out of reach of Western Copyright law as well, given their prior interactions with Deepseek’s development.

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    • ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      TIL they are decentralized and that does make keeping them offline harder, but does make issues like honeypots and malicious mirrors more likely as sites come and go.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My thoughts, too. Now, there will be a court case, and Anna’s will be shut down. Because, in court, money almost always wins.

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  • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s kind of ironic that a preservation focused organization didn’t have any sense of self-preservation. If they quietly scraped and archived songs over time and in the background, there never would have been any attention brought on them.

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    • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why should they hide if AI companies are doing it too and even profiting from it without repercussions?

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      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        AI companies have rich connected evil people backing them these people don’t

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      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        AI companies train their software on copyrighted content. They don’t spread direct copies of that content around.

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      • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So that they don’t get the spotlight on them and get shit down? Unless they have the money and legal representation behind them to fight it, like the AI companies do?

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    • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Clandestine organizations are hard to keep a tight rein on. All it takes is one deviant to sway others and start a foolish snowball effect…

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  • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They have lost dozens of court cases in as many countries. They are still up.

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems unlikely that they will be successful in shutting it down. If that were the case, they would have been shut down over the books already.

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