Putting preservation ideas aside, this would be interesting like 20 years ago. But in 2025 if you want to pirate a music, you might as well just grab the lossless version from torrent.
FellowDeviant on
The 2009-2010 me that spent hours scraping thousands of songs and full albums from torrents to put on their iPod Nano would be so stoked to hear this.
indy_110 on
Folks should be reminded that the app has made it all but impossible for a user to cancel their service on app, I ended up having to log into the browser to find the cancel button.
What is the history of it cancel button location?
beti88 on
“the internet”?
Top_Yellow3741 on
How do most people download 300TB and/or have a place to put it all? Even if compressed?
No_Conversation9561 on
It would be interesting to train an LLM on all the metadeta.
FinishingMyCoffee1 on
I got banned from Spotify for doing this with my playlists. Funny that
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abdallha-smith on
The pirating of western media is a state sponsored operation by Russia; I’m not complaining for sure 🙂 but we should be aware to which profits the crime.
Economy-Owl-5720 on
So did they break in or not? The article and statement seems to indicate it was public access
5oj on
When deezer started, it would let you upload your MP3 to get the song you like in it
HikariAnti on
Someone feed it to all the LLMs so it can never be removed… Actually never mind they probably already have it.
DespisedIcon1616 on
ALL of these tracks were already available for download across various torrent or blogspot sites if you know where to look. I’m not sure why this is surprising to anyone since it’s already incredibly easy to download whole discographies at a time. Obviously, it would be harder to find more of the obscure underground artists but it’s definitely out there already if you look under the right rocks..
Top_Yellow3741 on
Only 3.5 hour download at 10 gigabits. Over 12 days at 100mbps. Assuming you can sustain that speed on average.
PoopCumlord on
I hope this is highly illegal and the perpetrators will get huge fines / prison time.
MusicalMastermind on
good for them.
Rockytriton on
As someone who has music published on Spotify and receives about $2 per year from it, I will never financially recover from this.
CoffeeExtra1983 on
>The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: Spotify reaction)
Haha holy shit, irrelevant af on here but my brain has been seeing the word “redacted” so often it saw “Spotify redaction”, lmao god what is this timeline
chestnutman on
I kinda expected it to be way more than that
X3ll3n on
I’ve released a couple of songs on Spotify before abandonning the ship. It was a pain in the ass and it made me 100$ in 6 years. The hassle wasn’t worth the money.
Frostsorrow on
That’s actually a lot smaller then I thought it would be
pressurepoint13 on
I keep wondering who’s going to build the next Napster 😆
GGardener on
Great. And where on “the internet” can I find this beautifully catalogued scraped data?
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You can bet there’s more than one copy, I mean how many AI companies are there?
Spotify started exactly like this. The irony.
https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/
Just say what ai companies say
“I only downloaded all that copyrighted content for training my competing product”
Seems to have worked for them
“The internet”
What a ridiculous way of wording the headline.
Time to buy [a couple hard drives](https://americas.kioxia.com/en-ca/business/news/2025/ssd-20250721-1.html) so I’ll have a place to keep my copy.
Putting preservation ideas aside, this would be interesting like 20 years ago. But in 2025 if you want to pirate a music, you might as well just grab the lossless version from torrent.
The 2009-2010 me that spent hours scraping thousands of songs and full albums from torrents to put on their iPod Nano would be so stoked to hear this.
Folks should be reminded that the app has made it all but impossible for a user to cancel their service on app, I ended up having to log into the browser to find the cancel button.
What is the history of it cancel button location?
“the internet”?
How do most people download 300TB and/or have a place to put it all? Even if compressed?
It would be interesting to train an LLM on all the metadeta.
I got banned from Spotify for doing this with my playlists. Funny that
[deleted]
The pirating of western media is a state sponsored operation by Russia; I’m not complaining for sure 🙂 but we should be aware to which profits the crime.
So did they break in or not? The article and statement seems to indicate it was public access
When deezer started, it would let you upload your MP3 to get the song you like in it
Someone feed it to all the LLMs so it can never be removed… Actually never mind they probably already have it.
ALL of these tracks were already available for download across various torrent or blogspot sites if you know where to look. I’m not sure why this is surprising to anyone since it’s already incredibly easy to download whole discographies at a time. Obviously, it would be harder to find more of the obscure underground artists but it’s definitely out there already if you look under the right rocks..
Only 3.5 hour download at 10 gigabits. Over 12 days at 100mbps. Assuming you can sustain that speed on average.
I hope this is highly illegal and the perpetrators will get huge fines / prison time.
good for them.
As someone who has music published on Spotify and receives about $2 per year from it, I will never financially recover from this.
>The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: Spotify reaction)
Haha holy shit, irrelevant af on here but my brain has been seeing the word “redacted” so often it saw “Spotify redaction”, lmao god what is this timeline
I kinda expected it to be way more than that
I’ve released a couple of songs on Spotify before abandonning the ship. It was a pain in the ass and it made me 100$ in 6 years. The hassle wasn’t worth the money.
That’s actually a lot smaller then I thought it would be
I keep wondering who’s going to build the next Napster 😆
Great. And where on “the internet” can I find this beautifully catalogued scraped data?