They were accessed through the API.
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gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk 3 days ago
The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 days ago
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 days ago
An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me.
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
More like scraped. You can’t really leak smth that’s already publicly accessible
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It’s so nice of Spotify to make their databases publicly accessible. Really progressive.
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well, IMO, “public access” includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there’s not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github)