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To paraphrase an impeached president:
When a corporation does it, it’s not illegal.
Edit: corrected the impeachment status of the president making the quote.
my comment is now irrelevant because the previous comment fixed the mistake
impeached yes.
convicted no.
Yeah sorry. I saw your comment and edited mine and forgot to add the “edit” reason. My bad.
Note: article is from 2017
Edit: here’s the follow-up from later that year: Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History
Remember when the Obama admin made Aaron Schwartz kill himself for ripping some JSTOR articles?
Blaming Obama admin here while directly true is hiding the fact that MIT a tax exemot organization with billions in federal funding petitioned the government to prosecute schwartz with the that extra big dick daddy zeal.
MIT did this at behest of the companies who owned the copyright to journals.
True, but MIT can’t lock you in a federal prison for 50 lifetimes, and arguably the primary responsibility of the state is to protect private citizens against gangs of other private citizens, be they the Bloods or MIT or Chevron
Google also seems to pad their library with stuff uploaded to YouTube, which I’m pretty sure includes stuff not uploaded by authorized individuals.
Music streaming services are crooked AF
Correction. The RIAA is crooked as fuck.
Well yeah, Spotify was invented in Sweden, home of Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. To cite one article about the service: “Developed to bridge the gap between illegal file sharing innovation and a behind-the-times record industry, Spotify is conducting a delicate balancing act.”
Not true, the mp3 came all from direct connect.
