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

• Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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      • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m backing them. I lost the code to my swiss bank accounts, tho.

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    • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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