BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 4 days agoHacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culturewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1176arrow-down1external-linkHacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culturewww.theregister.comBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarescintilla@crust.piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoPirating music is genuinely just not worth the effort so I honestly belive them. Probably didn’t scrape all of them simply because that’s a petabyte of storage or more.
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. I’m not sure exactly how “listens” maps on to total songs, but it sounds like they got almost all of them
minus-squarescintilla@crust.piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoOver 250 million total so about 1/3.
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoOh right. So I guess that means the majority of stuff uploaded to Spotify never really gets listened to.
Pirating music is genuinely just not worth the effort so I honestly belive them. Probably didn’t scrape all of them simply because that’s a petabyte of storage or more.
I’m not sure exactly how “listens” maps on to total songs, but it sounds like they got almost all of them
Over 250 million total so about 1/3.
Oh right. So I guess that means the majority of stuff uploaded to Spotify never really gets listened to.