May all lawyers involved die in the most horrible way possible. Actually scratch that, May all corporate lawyers regardless of involvement die in the most horrible way possible. ☺️

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Be the change.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Change is about the only thing I got because of corporate greed

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 99 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is this the music industry asking for more than all the money in the world again?

Yes, I did say again.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago

LINE MUST GO UP. ANY LINE ACTUALLY. WE'RE FUCKIN DESPERATE.

Businesses everywhere

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, more along the lines of 10% of all the worlds money.

... very reasonable indeed 😜

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apparently it's legal and acceptable to demand, through a court, enough money to destroy the world economy.

Seriously, if I were the judge I'd throw out the lawsuit until they come up with a remotely realistic number. As it is, it makes the whole lawsuit look like a joke.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The whole lawsuit is a joke.

And it should be permanently thrown out and not seen again because of how unserious that number is.

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

The gratuitous vulgar nonsense of it is the point. Its LBJ slapping his cock on the desk during a serious meeting to drive home that you cant fucking stop him

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

we have stood with the artist community against piracy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

over a massive music data scrape

So when are you going to sue AI companies?

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Anna’s archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

Were they not going to release the songs as well? They just started with the metadata?

ETA: Yes, this is from their blog post about it:

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)
[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)
[ ] Album art
[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can't sue people for something they haven't done yet. Presumably if and when the actual music files are released the damages will go up proportionally - probably to something like $(volume of the universe / Planck distance^3)

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate?

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can't

No. Because you're meat. Not a real person with articles of incorporation and a robust legal department. Wake the fuck up.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 17 points 2 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

200gb meta, 300tb music. Just 300tb not released yet. Might be, might not.

So when are you going to sue AI companies?

I think some sue suno and settle for money. And GEMA (germany) sue openai for songtext.

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How do you even sue a shadow library? Aren't they like, behind 7 proxies?

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plus, they're using the neighbour's internet!
Checkmate, spotify!

[–] Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Ohhhhh that’s why internet’s been slow lately

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[–] Min3r@kitty.ly 26 points 2 days ago

They're gonna shit when they find out about yt-dlp

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 220 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

The fact that Anna's Archive isn't responding to the court tells me they couldn't give a shit about the lawsuit.

Glorious.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago

13 fantastillion dollars

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Spotify doesn't even have that much net worth how the hell one can steal more than that anyway? Also this isn't even stealing just a digital copy sent by spotify servers

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Spotify doesn't even have that much net worth how the hell one can steal more than that anyway?

Because it was stolen already. By Anna's archive. Isn't that obvious!?

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 2 days ago

Haha

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Weird, I wasn't aware that Spotify OWNED this music. I'm fairly certain they they only license it.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

Spotify and Major Music Labels

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I guess if I were an artist I'd look at this and feel justified suing Spotify for 1 billion dollars for the lack of protection of my music.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 91 points 3 days ago (1 children)

$13.000.000.000.000

Like, are we 12 now? I too would come up with these bazonker numbers at that age.

Fuck Spotify,fuck the current legal system that got us here

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The higher the number, the more the stock goes up when they announce it. Should be opposite though really if these guys are incompetent enough to lose $13 trillion because of a single pirate.

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 142 points 3 days ago (6 children)

And how much of that hypothetical $13 Trillion would be shared the poor, poor artists?

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago

When this whole thing with Lily Allen was a thing, where she got more from posting feet pic on OnlyFans than from Spotify, someone posted an article that said Spotify is paying out like 150k-200k per month just for her streams. And yet only a tiny fraction of that ends up with her. Music labels fucking suck.

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[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that streaming services have negatively impacted artists and art cultivation. Headbanging while blackout drunk at a dive bar gig, without directly giving the band(s) a penny, would help them more than their semiannual Spotify payout

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