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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 10 months ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'd be so happy if they tried this in court and got away with it

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

This strategy really depends on their ability to bribe President Trump for a pardon.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago*

Not necessarily. There is precedent, they'd just need to make a credible-enough attempt to actually do this with the data (and get the right judge/jury).

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