Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

Despite being sued by Spotify, Anna's Archive has begun releasing the actual music files from its massive Spotify scrape.

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XLE@piefed.social · 42 pts · 215d

Don't worry Spotify. I'm not a pirate. I'm an "AI researcher".

I've even got as much coding cred as Eli Yudkowsky.

mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 9 pts · 215d (2 replies)

This is the same "preservation" group that sell data contracts to AI corporations like NVidia, right?

XLE@piefed.social · 13 pts · 215d

Yes, apparently. Then sent emails back and forth, verifying they were about to commit a crime, and then they did it

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 215d

BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 215d (2 replies)

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Too bad they don't offer a better format than MP3.

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