One of the problems with Funkwhale is that it only works well when all files fed to it are correctly tagged with artist, album and track data which is not the case with many 'discovered' tracks. Untagged (or badly tagged) tracks are hard to impossible to find in Funkwhale while e.g. Airsonic has no such problems since they have the option to navigate the collection through the file system. Add to that the fact that 'sharing' music - which is part of the concept of Funkwhale - has been demonised and sometimes criminalised and suddenly there seem to be few upsides to running a 'Pod' (which is how a Funkwhale collection is supposed to be called). I've been following the project for years and have been running an instance on and off but always went back to one of the Subsonic forks.
Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project
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Re: Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project
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Same way they did it the last 20 years. They don't need to understand the fediverse to sue everyone and than everyone will disable the feature or adds some filter
They can't "sue everyone". BitTorrent is a lot easier to track and prove illegal sharing, yet it still continues to work.
Yes but plenty of people got sued at least in Germany.
People moved to Usenet providers but that traffic is much less than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
Re: Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project
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They can't "sue everyone". BitTorrent is a lot easier to track and prove illegal sharing, yet it still continues to work.
Yes but plenty of people got sued at least in Germany. People moved to Usenet providers but that traffic is much less than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
You've moved the goalposts. "Some people got sued" is a far weaker than "Funkwhale will be sued into oblivion".
Re: Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but plenty of people got sued at least in Germany. People moved to Usenet providers but that traffic is much less than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
You've moved the goalposts. "Some people got sued" is a far weaker than "Funkwhale will be sued into oblivion".
I don't think so.
As soon as the industry gets wind about this practice people or servers or companies will get sued (there is after all nothing else these companies can do) and as soon as this happens some people in the line will try to protect them.
Could be server hosting company, the server hosters, source code Providers etc etc.
Btw that doesn't change the law: dependimg on your country there are already clear legal rules regarding lending digital copies to your friends.
They might fake users and start collecting data through those etc.
But only if it becomes a thing.
I think the main reason I'm not seeing anythinguch about lawsuits today is due to streaming services and the amount of legal media traffic compared to things like torrent.