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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (www.billboard.com)

submitted 5 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728

Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

You should watch this video:

The dark side of Spotify from Slightly Sociable.

It's about short AI music created for phone farms to steal royalties away from real artists. It's a whole business model and Spotify encourages this malicious practice as all those phones use premium to earn money faster, and 33% of that money goes to Spotify. Plus they do other illegal stuff like promote music from stake holder companies over other music.

[-] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for sharing the vid; that was insanely fascinating, even if a bit depressing.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

What's even more depressing is that there isn't a proper alternative. Many music streaming services have their own flaws. A friend of mine recommended Deezer, as it has really high quality streams but that one is owned by a Russian oligarch.

Artists are paid the most with Apple music but Apple is a shit company as well. Streaming is all fucked, same with movies / shows.

If you want to support the artists, buy their music on Bandcamp. Musicians are having it hard, they need our support. They deserve our money. It's the pirate code: pirate from the mega corps and billionaires, support the little guys.

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