Technology

It's a good thing if you are smart enough to understand that AI isn't going away. Universal bought udio, the "legal" variant of the dataset will be used to train models, only they will be closed source, censored and come with a ToS that gives all the rights from the generated music to the record companies from the get go.

At least this gives open source a chance.

I mean, it seems like the perfect avenue to replicate Stremio / Kodi but for music

I guess it's easier packaged in a torrent rather than individual downloads, but I do question why anyone would need this if all they were doing was training AI, as everything is already available on YouTube for free. You don't need to hack a company to get the audio. Now if you're a human trying to actually listen to the songs, obviously the Spotify torrent will sound much better, assuming the hack captured the higher quality audio streams from Spotify. All the youtube downloaders sound like crap because its like 128kbps m4a (at least on newpipe, though you can do 160kbps opus if you want)

Yeah, the people who are racing to download it all want to use it for profit. AI companies, companies that run databases, etc.

Same it seems useless to me. The real value is knowing how songs relate to each other in terms of being played before/after other songs, and that's only available via internal datasets that they could never scrape anyway.