Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

AI have made pirating legal, as long as you are not pirating for personal enjoyment. Isn’t that the defence the AI companies have used successfully?

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

Yes, I did say again.

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.

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. ☺️

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?

spotify and major music labels should be sued for 13 trillion

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

Glorious.

Is this why the Spotify section on their torrent page says "Unavailable until further notice."?

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

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

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

$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

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

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

13 fantastillion dollars

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

If the litigants suffered these tremendous losses bc of AA, can they not deduct these losses from their taxes?

Oh, wait...

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

That's about as realistic as the Russian court that fined Google for two undecillion roubles.

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.

Old man yells at cloud

Lol, who'd they consult on that number, Joe Rogan? Fuck Spotify, another leech company getting rich off the talent of others.