We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
VPN usually saves your IP too. And they have to give your IP address if requested by government. This might not be true for all countries and all VPN, but be mindful about this. I wouldn’t do anything illegal thinking its safe with a VPN.
It’s not legal what they are doing, isn’t it? Don’t they have basically the whole worlds police force after them already? Where are they even hosting?
Spotify started with piracy.
This is the view from Belgium indeed.
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VPN usually saves your IP too. And they have to give your IP address if requested by government. This might not be true for all countries and all VPN, but be mindful about this. I wouldn’t do anything illegal thinking its safe with a VPN.
Or Cloudflare DNS.
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Well this is ironic
Haha, wow
They just need to say they are using the archive for AI training data. Then it’s legal.
They released the scraped data though and are openly against copyright laws
Well, they do sell access to their data to train AI, so that’s a start
It is illegal to distribute these files. And they accept money, so it makes it even worse: