Aktivistengruppe gibt an, 86 Millionen Musikdateien von Spotify gelöscht zu haben

They’re trying to frame this as an AI issue versus creators‘ rights, but the real loser is corporate exploitation of music. 

They want you to hate this like you hate AI; but piracy has been resurging steadily since DRM and exploitative streaming models started squeezing consumers.

Those Handsome Bastards

I have absolutely no problem with piracy, but it’s ridiculous to claim that this is activism. Anna’s archive is a piracy website that tries to give itself good conscience.

Drop the mix

Said Spotify, „Nooooo, you can’t do that—*we* own the music we stole.“

So like if everyone starts pirating again, what are they gonna do? Go after everyone? Lol

Both sides are peddling a false moral argument as to why they are in the right. Spotify’s main interest isn’t protecting creators, and piracy in archival pursuits is still harmful to artists. This is a battle to maintain scarcity around a product that is inherently not scarce, as it’s just sequenced bits. The music should be free. Using it in pursuit of profit, shouldn’t be. It makes the most sense to me that artists should make their money by 1) receiving donations from a community 2) licensing use of their work in other media like videos, movies, and TV shows 3) selling merchandise 4) selling concert tickets.

All media scarcity is now artificially imposed.

Time to bring back what.cd