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
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.
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!?
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!Ohhhhh that’s why internet’s been slow lately
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.
That is not how laws work or what they are for. Do not be a child.
What about what they said was childish?
Nothing, you’re a big boy now.
I had a double take on that number they’re asking for.
$13 Trillion? Geez, fucking greedy much? Not that they haven’t been greedy before, but we’re used to seeing millions and billions that are asked per track (technically they’d ask ridiculous sums of like $10,000 ~ even $100,000 per track in the past). But this just glaringly demonstrate how greedy these fucks really are and they just gotta tell everyone about it.
I still say it was dumb of Anna to bother with Spotify but I like the defiance of just not caring.
I mean, is Anna’s archive under risk even? Yeah, worst case they can get every major DNS to ban them, but that won’t stop them from being accessible. And if they operate in a country that doesn’t give a shit, they won’t face consequences,especially if their opsec is good enough
Not to mention, things are backed up with torrents. If their servers get raided they would be able to restart where they left off
In my eyes, if you got the chance at something major like spotify’s entire library, you take it.
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.
All copyright and patents laws are bullshit for morons.
13 fantastillion dollars
Bruh xD
Is this why the Spotify section on their torrent page says “Unavailable until further notice.”?
$13.000.000.000.000
Like, are we 12 now? I too would come up with these bazonker numbers at that age.
Fuck Spotify,fuck the current legal system that got us here
The higher the number, the more the stock goes up when they announce it. Should be opposite though really if these guys are incompetent enough to lose $13 trillion because of a single pirate.
Are you going to tell me that investors are bumb enough not to see that nobody will ever even see a % of a % of a % of a % of a % of that number?
Why, none of that matters. Stock markets run on the hopes and dreams of investors. That’s how guys like Sam Altman can get away with evaluating their company at $1 trillion despite the bottom line showing them doing nothing but wasting funds.
So in other words, yes, they are that dumb
While I do agree in general, Open ai is not a public company. Valuation logics of private companies are quite different than stock market.
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
lol
lmao even
These numbers are always shitty napkin math that assumes every pirate would be a paying customer even though a lot of them don’t have the money to even spend as much as they calculate, would just skip jumping through all the hoops they’ve created or don’t even have a legal way to purchase in their country. Completely brazen lies every time
The article says they are seeking $150K per track, which is the maximum legal amount.
And many will download just to hoard and not listen to that music ever. Like those “100 greatest hits from…” where you don’t know half of them and don’t like half of the ones you know.
Friendly reminder that streaming services have negatively impacted artists and art cultivation. Headbanging while blackout drunk at a dive bar gig, without directly giving the band(s) a penny, would help them more than their semiannual Spotify payout
One of my favorite memories is inviting both my best friends and coworkers to a metal show at Saint Vitus, both groups hitting it off and making new friends, chatting with the bands at the merch table, and eating enough pizza to vomit on the sidewalk the moment I stepped outside.
I’ve honestly been trying to figure out this move for weeks. What was the point of grabbing it ALL when it’s so easy to rip whatever you want with some of the tools? Was it just a big “F you”? And peace - that’s a reason :) In that case they could care less what they get sued for. But to me it seems like unnecessarily whacking at the hornets nest. I hope it doesn’t bite them in the arse someday.
I mean i don’t think spotify is easily rippable with any tool. So it was an immediate chance to get them all. Also annas archive is all about storing and preserving thoose files. It is useful when a song gets removed from spotify or something
Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.
Could make it possible to just spin up russian-spotify with a new color theme and all the data.
