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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 41 points 1 day ago

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 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] onewithoutaname@k.fe.derate.me 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I'm not sure that Spotify offers the best quality either, but how many modern artists are?