Happy to have dropped Spotify years ago.
Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
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Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, the API is now basically useless and you can't use it in production. All because of some anonymous greedy dickheads.
Get the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available. Also it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.
Yes stealing other peoples things to 'give them away' is very noble. The meta data is useless to me. I can no longer build an app on top of Spotify's API because they've had to lock it down.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#283Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#284Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#285Does anyone know the status of this whole release. The metadata was hosted, and now not hosted. I saw a torrent leaked of unpopular tracks. No statements or blogs from AA explaining the metadata removal, or an updated release timeline. Can anyone say more?
They did describe why briefly on reddit, saying it drew too much attention: https://torrentfreak.com/images/aaconf.png
I guess I'm a little surprised that they felt this release was too hot. I'm not really surprised at the response from the music industry, but rather I thought AA was more confident in their opsec/safety from this sort of threat.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Music should not be centralized.
Cool, feel free to create a website that does as much as lists track names and let me know how long will you survive before your hosting provider gets flooded with bullshit DMCA notices and shuts you down. I'm not talking about downloading music, I'm not even talking about some custom player for reproducing music, I'm talking about just putting say a list of songs from a playlist as plain text online.
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Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s a big if. My bet is that they are in Central or Northern Europe, just like the Pirate Bay people. Unlikely anyone in Russia or China would care to offer a service primarily to the benefit of the western world. I bet there are similar sites in the Runet or behind the Great Firewall we don't even know about and that simply don't bother catering to us.
Z-library was/is very likely run by Russians. They were even arrested by FBI, but escaped. Archive.is is likely run by a Russian. LibGen was run by Russians.
They are all not Anna's Archive and one is not like the other. Z-library, LibGen maybe, Archive.is might be eastern Europe but almost certainly not Russia. Just because it's advantageous in some cases to appear Russian or Chinese doesn't mean it is true. Some are better in their camouflage others like https://migflash.com/ not so much.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available. Also it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.
Yes stealing other peoples things to 'give them away' is very noble. The meta data is useless to me. I can no longer build an app on top of Spotify's API because they've had to lock it down.
Have you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available. Also it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.
Yes stealing other peoples things to 'give them away' is very noble. The meta data is useless to me. I can no longer build an app on top of Spotify's API because they've had to lock it down.
I really hate people using terms like "theft" or "piracy" to refer to the act of artificially-limited copying. Copying something does not take anything away from the person you're copying from inherently. Theft does. And piracy is like theft, but with murder and kidnapping too.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did describe why briefly on reddit, saying it drew too much attention: https://torrentfreak.com/images/aaconf.png
I guess I'm a little surprised that they felt this release was too hot. I'm not really surprised at the response from the music industry, but rather I thought AA was more confident in their opsec/safety from this sort of threat.
I would assume it's moreso they don't want to lose their domains too quickly. Though they've only given one sentence to go off, so it's hard to speculate.