Currently it says they have released metadata and album art. Is archiving and sharing the textual track metadata alone (no images, no audio) legal in the US, or Europe? By what basis is it legal or illegal?
Monopoly is not a nice thing. Maybe it is convenient, but not nice.
People that gives money to artists are the ones going to concerts and buying music directly to artists. Spotify gives cents to artists, incetivizing awful behaviour (AI music, aggressive marketing, low effort art...).
Some people's urges to destroy all traces of human civilisation astonish me. What do you think Spotify is going to do with all its music when it ceases to exist in however many years? No, we must collectively feed Daniel Ek the Hungry.
Not legal. This group does not concern themselves with copyright law.
they do concern themselves with it, but in a "calling it out for being shit" kind of way.
Adherence to the legal framework is a function of your risk appetite.
Currently it says they have released metadata and album art. Is archiving and sharing the textual track metadata alone (no images, no audio) legal in the US, or Europe? By what basis is it legal or illegal?
Very, if we delete copyright like we're supposed to.
Not legal
Completely illegal.
The metadata scrape might not be.
Pretty sure any kind of scraping violates Spotify’s ToS.
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It's not. It's awful people justifying awful behaviour. And it's why we can't have nice things. There are always assholes ready to exploit others.
Monopoly is not a nice thing. Maybe it is convenient, but not nice.
People that gives money to artists are the ones going to concerts and buying music directly to artists. Spotify gives cents to artists, incetivizing awful behaviour (AI music, aggressive marketing, low effort art...).
There's some irony here considering Spotify used pirated mp3s at the start of their operations, I suppose.
Some people's urges to destroy all traces of human civilisation astonish me. What do you think Spotify is going to do with all its music when it ceases to exist in however many years? No, we must collectively feed Daniel Ek the Hungry.
You're talking about Spotify, right? Famously started by ad execs pirating music and then selling it.
Are you talking about Spotify here…?
lol is this comedy? Cuz it's absolutely hilarious opposite humor.
You must be the Spotify CEO, lol