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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by Aurornis »

shaky-carrousel wrote: post #341
cryzinger wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I had non-technical family members bragging at Thanksgiving about how they bought at box at their local Best Buy that has an app which plays any movie or TV show they want on demand without paying anything. They didn’t understand what was happening, but they said it worked great. Sounds like one of these: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-strea... Probably not your problem to play tech support…

Who cares, today is pretty easy to be part of a botnet. Having a slightly outdated lightbulb qualifies, so I'd not bother.

Having an IoT device with security vulnerabilities does not automatically make you vulnerable to botnets because it’s behind your router’s NAT under normal conditions.

Botnet infections occur primarily through one of two ways: Vulnerable devices exposed directly to the Internet, or app downloads and installs on persons computing devices.

The TV box appears to be a rare hardware version of convincing someone to bring something into their network that compromises it. Usually it’s a software package that they’re convinced to install which brings along the botnet infection

Regardless, it’s a weird and dangerous mentality to believe that being part of a botnet is a “who cares” level of concern. Having criminal traffic originate from your network is a problem, but they might also decide to exploit other vulnerabilities some day and start extracting even more from your internal network.

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Post by masfuerte »

saubeidl wrote: post #489
rob74 wrote: post #486

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I think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.

My link is to the CD DRM!

This is rather misleading. Standard CDs as sold had (and have) no DRM.

The scheme you link to is intended to prevent further copies of CD-Rs but you can copy a CD you bought as often as you like.

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Post by mirashii »

masfuerte wrote: post #522
saubeidl wrote: post #489

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My link is to the CD DRM!

This is rather misleading. Standard CDs as sold had (and have) no DRM. The scheme you link to is intended to prevent further copies of CD-Rs but you can copy a CD you bought as often as you like.

Unless the CD comes with a root kit that interferes with that copying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by troupo »

LunaSea wrote: post #452
troupo wrote: post #197

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Netflix didn't lose content by choice. Actual right holders decided to pull their content and create rival services. Has nothing to do with perceived enshittification by Netflix (even though they have enshittification too). Spotify is under the same threat: they have no content that they own. Everything is licensed.

Spotify is banking on AI music which is enough to tell you everything you need to know about the company, their C-suite and their opinion on music.

> Spotify is banking on AI music

Are they?

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Post by RGamma »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #210
vlaaad wrote: post #57

Unrelated, but I just can't stop myself from saying that I absolutely hate Spotify even though I'm a paying customer. Fuck you Spotify. You were supposed to be a convenient way to discover and listen to music. Now you are only convenient for listening to music, and absolutely terrible for any recommendations. This is sad really. Spotify had good recommendations. It's absolutely in a position where it can provide good…

I always find these takes curious because they could not be further from my experience. I'm still discovering tons of good music. Perhaps it's specific to genres, but I haven't encountered any generated junk tracks.

Since relatively recently I'm getting AI music in my automatic radio. They look/sound like soulless facsimiles of the real thing.

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Post by troupo »

sbarre wrote: post #503
LunaSea wrote: post #452

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Spotify is banking on AI music which is enough to tell you everything you need to know about the company, their C-suite and their opinion on music.

The bit in the blog post about the amount of music uploaded yearly to Spotify was shocking. I'm sure there's lots of unsigned self-published artists uploading their music in there, but so much of that has to be auto-generated and AI-generated slop.

> but so much of that has to be auto-generated and AI-generated slop.

There is. And most people would not even recognize a lot of AI music without multiple listens and digging through things like "is there any online presence (which can also be easily spoofed)".

I've fallen into the trap myself with some (pretty generic) blues music

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by lysace »

flexagoon wrote: post #513
lysace wrote: post #247

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Anna's Archive is not communist. You may be confusing them with SciHub.

I was - thank you.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220301004131/https://sci-hub.r...

> Alexandra Elbakyan: Why Stalin is a God

The rest of my comment still stands.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by Mythli »

iknowstuff wrote: post #224
virtualritz wrote: post #207

I just found out that https://annas-archive.li/ is masked by my German internet provider (SIM.de/Drillisch). I usually use a VPN but I had it switched off temp. to watch Fallout (Prime Video won't let you watch through a VPN). Only when I switched Mullvad back on could I open the site. I didn't know German providers do this.

In that vein, I am trying to find out why searching for alextud popcorntime which should trivially yield http://github.com/alextud/PopcornTimeTV results in anything but that one particular URL in every search engine: Google, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Bing They even find a fork of that particular repo, which in turn links back to it, but refuse to show the result I want. Have't found any DMCA notices. What is going on?

Try Yandex search, trust me later.

It has 0 censorship - regarding pirated content at least.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by monerozcash »

alex_duf wrote: post #511
monerozcash wrote: post #462

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Rent a dedicated server, setup mullvad wireguard on it or whatever. Download stuff to said server using wireguard. Sure, you can also use Tor. The people engaged in copyright-related illegality generally don't.

But then you need to rent a server without leaving any hint on your real identity. Which means going to some dodgy corners of the internet. I certainly wouldn't attempt

Depends on your threat model, you'd probably have to be scraping at a pretty large scale for anyone to try pursuing you through vpn providers.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

lmm wrote: post #449
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #265

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You have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.

Is that still the case? The option to do that quietly disappeared from Amazon Music a couple of months ago, for example, and they were one of the last few holdouts where you still could. It might be only Apple now?

I still buy DRM free music from Amazon.
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