datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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It's not legal what they are doing, isn't it? Don't they have basically the whole worlds police force after them already? Where are they even hosting?
They just need to say they are using the archive for AI training data. Then it's legal.
They released the scraped data though and are openly against copyright laws
Well, they do sell access to their data to train AI, so that’s a start
This is the view from Belgium indeed.
Edit: alternative link available: https://nl.annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Well this is ironic
Haha, wow
Or Cloudflare DNS.
VPN usually saves your IP too. And they have to give your IP address if requested by government. This might not be true for all countries and all VPN, but be mindful about this. I wouldn't do anything illegal thinking its safe with a VPN.
Spotify started with piracy.
It is illegal to distribute these files. And they accept money, so it makes it even worse: