Spotify's entire library reportedly hacked and copied

Well, this can’t be good.

300TB worth of all published Spotify music has reportedly been horked, and the group responsible is planning to release it all of it for free (with no DRM).

While bad for Spotify, it’s potentially “good news” for any AI vendors, as it will now be impossible to attribute culpability of any particular vendor for violating copyright if/when source data is used in subsequent training models. It almost works in their favor when you think about it in that light.

Oh well. All music is now free for everyone! Have a nice day! :slight_smile:

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Wow, that’s bombshell news :bomb:
There might indeed be serious repercussions in the long run!

Dang! I’m out $.00012 per month!

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Oh, your songs got more than 10 million plays per month on Spotify. Good job. It’s gonna be a lean Christmas for you this year @steve ..

What would we do as musicians without Spotify’s noble business model.

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The sooner you realize that the music biz is not about music and act accordingly the faster your revenue can go up.
You have to create a vessel of interest.

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I can’t find anything about this other than this post on the link you have posted here.

Sure, it is so easy to poke your head above the 300.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 musicians who can get the same libraries, same gear, and plugins as you can…

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How cool, I can’t wait for my music to be used by a 12-year-old kid’s prompts…well, it hasn’t been released as yet, I love ‘Anna’s Archive’ BS statements too, what an absolute bunch of twats….

I guess the CEO only gets $799 million this year then, instead of $800 million :sob:

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Maybe we should start a gofundme.

Doesnt matter how many AI algorithms there are or samples or vsts or DAW’s, unless a genius is using those tools everything will sound average.

I haven’t heard anything remotely as Good as The Prodigy - Firestarter, done with AI.

And Liam Howlett of The Prodigy made that Track with a early version of Cubase on an Atari ST with a load of samples, mixing through a cheap Mackie analog desk.

Give a man a room fool of tools, does not guarantee anything good will exit that room, unless he himself is a craftsman.

AI is actually destroying music, because so much energy is being used its bankrupting companies, CHATGPT are spending $15 million a day to function with zero profit.

They have already burned through $170 billion of loan money and still cant turn a profit and the datacentres are full of 99% prompted garbage that people generated and don’t like the outcome.

The AI music i have heard so far, is awful, it all sounds like Nickelback, pop country, California pop music, full of aliasing and tinny high end, its shocking, shockingly bad music.

You will not get Nine Inch nails, Depeche Mode, The Prodigy, Joy Division, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan from Ai, all you will get is mediocre California sounding pop.

It all sounds the same as well, which is weird, how can a guy from India, another guy from Tokyo and another guy from Manchester, all be making the same sounding music ?

Doesnt sound very intelligent !

Showcases how sad modern songwriters are, you have guys in there 60s, from Wigan, showcasing there AI rock pop songs that sound like a 20 year old from Louisiana is singing them.

How is this reflective of who You are as an artist ?

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Hacking abounds.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

Yeah, and I don’t think that’s even counting “breaches” like DOGE dispersing Social Security records for 300M people to Musk “associates.” Pretty crazy times. By design, of course.