"Sir, this is Wendys" energy.

Working Anna's Archive link :

https://annas-archive.li/

Roughly $0.00002/a/s/l/m

When this whole thing with Lily Allen was a thing, where she got more from posting feet pic on OnlyFans than from Spotify, someone posted an article that said Spotify is paying out like 150k-200k per month just for her streams. And yet only a tiny fraction of that ends up with her. Music labels fucking suck.

Wouldn't that be somewhere along the lines of $1000 per person, if divided over every single person in the world?

LINE MUST GO UP. ANY LINE ACTUALLY. WE'RE FUCKIN DESPERATE.

• Businesses everywhere

Well, more along the lines of 10% of all the worlds money.

... very reasonable indeed 😜

Who is going to stop them? You?

One of my favorite memories is inviting both my best friends and coworkers to a metal show at Saint Vitus, both groups hitting it off and making new friends, chatting with the bands at the merch table, and eating enough pizza to vomit on the sidewalk the moment I stepped outside.

We can't sleep at night, it was... It was... HORRIBLE

The gratuitous vulgar nonsense of it is the point. Its LBJ slapping his cock on the desk during a serious meeting to drive home that you cant fucking stop him

The whole lawsuit is a joke.

And it should be permanently thrown out and not seen again because of how unserious that number is.

Spotify and Major Music Labels

I guess if I were an artist I'd look at this and feel justified suing Spotify for 1 billion dollars for the lack of protection of my music.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

200gb meta, 300tb music. Just 300tb not released yet. Might be, might not.

So when are you going to sue AI companies?

I think some sue suno and settle for money. And GEMA (germany) sue openai for songtext.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Anna’s archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata

Were they not going to release the songs as well? They just started with the metadata?

ETA: Yes, this is from their blog post about it:

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)
[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)
[ ] Album art
[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)

sue companies

I don't understand. This sentence does not parse. Thats like sending an email to the legal department of my kidneys.

That's about 20 bucks though.

Probably theorizing every potential peer is pulling the whole archive.
So net worth * 100.000 potential peers = $$$

Spotify doesn't even have that much net worth how the hell one can steal more than that anyway?

Because it was stolen already. By Anna's archive. Isn't that obvious!?

Its just tribal politics.

While authority exists, everything it can touch is tribal politics and bullshit abstraction layers on top of them. Literally everything.

And terrorism. Tribal politics and terrorism.

All copyright and patents laws are bullshit for morons.

Try Listenbrainz, it creates weekly discovery playlists based on your listening habits.

Try out manual music discovery, it's dope!

Get a box of cds at a garage sale.

I'm using last.fm to scrobble my music to. It brings me the most Spotify features minus the streaming part (even has a neat playback thing which appears at the end of the year instead of at the begining of december)

Plus, they're using the neighbour's internet!
Checkmate, spotify!

You make an effort to contact the defended and bring the lawsuit to a judge. I don't think the court will grant the 13 billions judgement, that's a fantasy number but I don't think they will throw out the lawsuit either.

Ans since Anna's Archive won't show up in court Spotify will probably receive a default judgement which they can fold and shove up their ass.

They are probably going after companies affiliated with Anna's Archive next, like especially hosting providers.

Be the change.

VC company yells at swarm

Just like the Pirate Bay they will try to find and prosecute individuals behind it and then try and force governments to block the domains. Which they did, all of those guys spent trivial prison sentences (this was early internet and in Sweden, circumstances are not the same anymore), and TPB was down for like... A year I think, before it popped right back up and is going just as strong as it ever did. Because just like these capitalist laws to protect the technofeudal class evolve to protect them, so does the methods by which creative hackers employ tech to fuck them in the ass.

Hydrabay 4 lyfe

Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.

I mean i don't think spotify is easily rippable with any tool. So it was an immediate chance to get them all. Also annas archive is all about storing and preserving thoose files. It is useful when a song gets removed from spotify or something

Could make it possible to just spin up russian-spotify with a new color theme and all the data.