Weird, I wasn’t aware that Spotify OWNED this music. I’m fairly certain they they only license it.
Old man yells at cloud
$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
That’s about as realistic as the Russian court that fined Google for two undecillion roubles.
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
One of my favorite memories is inviting both my best friends and coworkers to a metal show at Saint Vitus, both groups hitting it off and making new friends, chatting with the bands at the merch table, and eating enough pizza to vomit on the sidewalk the moment I stepped outside.
The fact that Anna’s Archive isn’t responding to the court tells me they couldn’t give a shit about the lawsuit.
Glorious.
“Sir, this is Wendys” energy.
Working Anna’s Archive link :
Did they release the actual music yet?
It would be funny if they didn’t actually have any of it and were just pestering the industry. But they did release all the metadata, and spotify seems to think it’s legit…
TY!
At this point I must cancel my Spotify subscription. Any suggestion on how to implement a somewhat automated music discovery system that can replace Spotify’s “radios” and playlists?
I already run a Navidrome instance.
Try out manual music discovery, it’s dope!
I used to hang out at the record store when I was a young person… Nowadays I’m old and don’t have the same patience.
Try Listenbrainz, it creates weekly discovery playlists based on your listening habits.
And how much of that hypothetical $13 Trillion would be shared the poor, poor artists?
Roughly $0.00002/a/s/l/m
These numbers are always shitty napkin math that assumes every pirate would be a paying customer even though a lot of them don’t have the money to even spend as much as they calculate, would just skip jumping through all the hoops they’ve created or don’t even have a legal way to purchase in their country. Completely brazen lies every time
If the litigants suffered these tremendous losses bc of AA, can they not deduct these losses from their taxes?
Oh, wait…
We can’t sleep at night, it was… It was… HORRIBLE
I had a double take on that number they’re asking for.
$13 Trillion? Geez, fucking greedy much? Not that they haven’t been greedy before, but we’re used to seeing millions and billions that are asked per track (technically they’d ask ridiculous sums of like $10,000 ~ even $100,000 per track in the past). But this just glaringly demonstrate how greedy these fucks really are and they just gotta tell everyone about it.
I still say it was dumb of Anna to bother with Spotify but I like the defiance of just not caring.
I mean, is Anna’s archive under risk even? Yeah, worst case they can get every major DNS to ban them, but that won’t stop them from being accessible. And if they operate in a country that doesn’t give a shit, they won’t face consequences,especially if their opsec is good enough
Not to mention, things are backed up with torrents. If their servers get raided they would be able to restart where they left off
In my eyes, if you got the chance at something major like spotify’s entire library, you take it.
A reminder you can donate to AA though a multiple number of ways including a simple Amazon gift card and it takes less than 5 minutes.
And you get high speed downloads if you do so!
Lol, who’d they consult on that number, Joe Rogan? Fuck Spotify, another leech company getting rich off the talent of others.
According to the article, $150,000 is the maximum damages allowed per track. So $150,000/track * 86,000,000 tracks is around $13 Trillion. So they are asking for the maximum that the law allows.
They could ask for infinity billion dollars for all it matters; you can’t get blood from a stone.
Ah, it’s just such a wild number, I’m sure it’s meant as a scare tactic but it’s really more of an ‘sure ok buddy’.
I’ve honestly been trying to figure out this move for weeks. What was the point of grabbing it ALL when it’s so easy to rip whatever you want with some of the tools? Was it just a big “F you”? And peace - that’s a reason :) In that case they could care less what they get sued for. But to me it seems like unnecessarily whacking at the hornets nest. I hope it doesn’t bite them in the arse someday.
Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.
