Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics
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#2Ironic that genius scraped other lyrics sites to bootstrap their business. Cute analysis can’t hide the basic hypocrisy here.
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#3Do Genius actually own lyrics?
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#4Relevant history how they had to be forced into agreeing to pay royalties for lyrics https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius... (via @CaseyNewton https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1140266508318334977)
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#51) Extremely recent Repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20194952
2) I find it extremely aggravating how needlessly accusatory the title is. It presumes guilt when its still technically an accusation
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#6> Starting around 2016, Genius said, the company made a subtle change to some of the songs on its website, alternating the lyrics’ apostrophes between straight and curly single-quote marks in exactly the same sequence for every song.
> When the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words “Red Handed.”
Clever. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street.
Can Google really be so stupid/careless to just scrape Genius directly? Their explanation that they source these lyrics from someone, which in turn apparently scrapes Genius seems more plausible to me.
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#7I hope Google delists them so they go fuck themselves.
azlyrics is SO MUCH better. I'd rather see them at the top instead of Genius.
Re: Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics
#8> Starting around 2016, Genius said, the company made a subtle change to some of the songs on its website, alternating the lyrics’ apostrophes between straight and curly single-quote marks in exactly the same sequence for every song. > When the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words “Red Handed.” Clever. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
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#9I hope Google delists them so they go fuck themselves. azlyrics is SO MUCH better. I'd rather see them at the top instead of Genius.
Agreed, azlyrics has the cleanest site and most accurate lyrics. I’m baffled by their low ranking—why aren’t they always the first hit?
Re: Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics
#101) Extremely recent Repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20194952 2) I find it extremely aggravating how needlessly accusatory the title is. It presumes guilt when its still technically an accusation
Hacker news isn’t a criminal trial.