Technology

We sued people. Well, I think. Since the people are unknown. They didn't show up, so we won. Now unknown people need to pay whatever we say they should pay.

Great job, let's pat ourselves on the back. We fought the man and won.

AI still out here taking everything. Only the corporations can steal. Maybe they didn't like that it was then given to people for free, instead sold again.

In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains

Bahaha, Fuck Off. The world doesn't recognize your authority.

does this set precedence for online platforms to sue AI platforms for all the data collection? /s

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

They did it guys!!! Piracy no more /s

Only billionaires and friends allowed

So, this sentence says it's actually illegal to download copyrighted material through shadow libraries, I get it and now I wonder what could this mean for Meta's AI case?

So uhm, what's the new name? Asking for a friend.

"Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent" OK. That's not how that works.

It says the operators are unknown, but also failed to appear in court. If they don't even know who the operators are, how would they supoena them to come to court in the first place? 🤨

The US music industry has always been bullshit, going all the way back to record labels. I would feel bad for the artists, but I don't give two shits about the distributor who acts like they own the music and feels entitled to all monetary rewards for someone else's work.

Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.

I hope every music industry executive gets run over by a Mack Truck.

Funny, the statute $2500 should be for the circumvention act, which was likely singular, not per file obtained during or as a result of the act. And the $150k is ridiculous in and of itself, even if for all files obtained. What a strange world we live in.

Spotify built a system of control in order to profit a few at a cost to many, perhaps everyone else.

Someone broke that system in order to benefit many, possibly at the cost of some of their ability to profit from their system of control--if they didn't lose customers, or prospective customers, they didn't experience any financial loss, or a loss in their ability to maintain their system of control (which is still very much in place and working).

Either way, nobody was hurt.

But the person who acted selflessly to benefit of society in general is punished.

Because... We, as a society, celebrate and work effortlessly to maintain complex systems of abuse in order to satisfy our greed or the greed of others. All despite being taught in school not to lie to and bully each other, and to share with and care for each other.

As a species: We are bat shit fucking crazy!

Fuck Spotify and their ICE recruitment ad bullshit.

A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that's a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.

But it does make life a bit harder for Anna's archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won't.

Is this a reverse play? Does that ruling leave open the door to similar rulings against llms? Why did they offer no contest at all?

ChatGPT play a song that sounds suspiciously like enter sandman.

These greed demons make me more of a socialist everyday. America is fucked in this AI race. If only the .001%% can create AI by owning all the property rights, how do they expect a society to collaborate & innovate?

I love it when they declare fantasy judgements that are never going to be paid.

So uh, do they have a list of domains that should be blocked then? One that we can check out to... uh... ensure our kids aren't going there and stuff.

I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription and just downloaded all my music. It's a bit of initial effort, but the experience is so much better.

I wonder how far will people need to be pushed before price and restrictions outweigh convenience.

The real judgement was to force the domain registrars to comply since they have something they can take. The archive can just move to new domains.