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…
Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Mesophar@pawb.social 1 day agoIt’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.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 day ago
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?
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI companies have rich connected evil people backing them these people don’t
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m backing them. I lost the code to my swiss bank accounts, tho.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I know a Nigerian prince who can help you with that
Mesophar@pawb.social 17 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?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
AI companies train their software on copyrighted content. They don’t spread direct copies of that content around.