I'm not sure why nobody else is seeing this, but this was a MASSIVE operations failure on Spotify. Any other company would've noticed an attacker downloading 86 million songs / 256m metadata. This is showing they cut corners. 2/3 their purpose as a streaming platform is to protect the digital content they licensed, and they failed miserably.
Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Painting (portraits for example) as a profession largely disappeared, while art based on painting evolved (impressionism, cubism, etc) due to the camera. My point is that photography is essentially a simulacra of reality, yet it unexpectedly created its own art form and influenced existing ones. So will the use of LLMs for generation
It might turn out that there are more portrait artists, brush in hand, working today than at any point in history, in real numbers. This is certainly true for riding horses, and most definitly for musicians. But as the sole sources of those services, that is no longer true, or as percentages of total's, but with 9 billion people, the internet, and a big of effort, almost anything is viable.
I generally agree because the population grew, and music can be put aside has it never went through such a technological revolution (synth never really caught on)
But from what I saw there are less living horses today than 200 years ago, and although that just a proxy for horse riders I believe the same applies for painters, especially non-hobbyists
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#83Convenience won. How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?
> upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?
I do that not because I don't want to pay Spotify, but because it is more convenient. I want all of my music in one place (VLC), and Spotify doesn't let me export my library as OPUS or Flac. Some stuff in my library is only posted on SoundCloud, some are old mp3 recordings by friends, and another 30% are only on YouTube (small cover artists)
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
And specifically, not everybody owns a NAS with 300 TB capacity. At 30TB drive for almost 1000€, we are talking about 10-15000€. As mentioned in other stories, this is really welcomed by other big corps or LLM related companies
Datahorder here, a 26tb drive is about $375, so I don't think your quote of 30tb drive prices make sense. You can get about 80tb for $1000
In Germany the 30TB Ironwolf NAS edition is quoted € 975 on Amazon. The 22TB is € 719
Re: Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library
#85I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.
I am flabbergasted by the comments here, Spotify started with pirated music and now invests in the military. https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-helped-spotify-b... And https://djmag.com/news/spotifys-daniel-ek-leads-eu600-millio...
@thenthenthen Spotify doesn’t, its founder who has now moved on is investing.