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News headlines in my country are like "Spotify attacked!!", "Millions of music tracks stolen!!".
Hilarious...
My teachers were the biggest thieves in history, they would hand out copies to us multiple times a day.
Not as dramatic but similar sentiment in german (tech) news.
Let’s go for a 300TB USB key on AliExpress
It sounds like a joke, but it's not out of the realm of possibility, with advances in data storage, that we are easily self hosting the multi hundred TB libraries or distributed torrents on our cell phones in the near future. A combination of cryptography plus hardware advances could quickly redistribute the internet as we know it today, therefore redistributing power. If we are self hosting services locally, there's no ads, less propaganda etc. Anybody that self hosts any services can attest to lower costs, lower exposure to propaganda and advertising, increased self sovereignty, and an increase in insanity (a pun at self hosted 😅🫢)
Yeah, and that was an actual joke. First and last time I ordered a 1Tb solid state storage from Ali it was a looped 32Mb flash, faking the 1Tb.
Got no refund, kept it as a reminder not to be stupid again.
One day (communities, localities or government libraries) will again host public goods information with free access. Fighting intellectual monopoly is fighting for the return of local libraries (just the modern ones).
The absurdity that western governments fight archivists is beyond insane. They should be helping to distribute and host the data.
The half life of data is getting worse not better in the digital age. These pirates are doing the work of the public good and being vilified.
At least, assuming there is a future, they will be vindicated. Future generations will greatly appreciate finding archives such as this.
I feel like this will put them much more under the authorities target, music is much more sensible than books, simply because it moves more money..
Anyway I still am wondering how they managed to do this and how they still didn't get caught, there must be reeeally good devs there.
If instead of a giant omnibus torrent they put a folder structure on IPFS, it would be essentially a fully available streaming Spotify clone with the ability for people to "pin" tracks or albums or artists to have them stay locally on their device...
Just saying...
You're right, but that's not their goal.
Be the change you wish to see.
Nice.
Would have been happy to pay but they just had to be a$$#oles
You can say assholes on the internet
why must every good site draw attention to themselves like this? Make alternative site for music if you must make such a spectacle out of it, so when the hammer falls it doesnt take out the books too. Or at least have some kind of plan on how to survive it, which i really hope they do.
The content is distributed across numerous torrents. It's decentralized. Also there's a reason pirate bay is still up, while the other centralized players aren't.. . design distributed systems that aren't vulnerable to easy take downs.
Speed, security or cost, pick two.
yes, but what about annas archive itself? Decentralization is good and resilient, but the authoritans will attack the website and its maintainers directly. Maybe they will try blocking it, or demonize it and its users or maybe they will even start uploading malware there to make it worse to use. In general, as long as things stay out of general public's view they are somewhat safe, but I bet this will have at least some news organizations mention it.
Each day we have less and less rights and protections so we(as in the piracy community in general) have to make sure we will survive despite of that. Not just for ourselves but to preserve things for everyone.
Very cool, though the quality leaves a bit to be desired.
For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
I listen exclusively to 96kbps opus and it sounds perfect. Not sure if 75kbps would be noticeable.
I don't know if I have bad ears but I cannot hear the difference in 90K OPUS from FLAC.
Call me when it's actually released. "We'll release the music in the future" is worth exactly as much content as "we'll release a Batgirl movie".
You don't need them to release anything. Just download soulseek and search for anything you want.
LET'S FUCKING GO