▲ 356 ▼ Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion (hackread.com) submitted 7 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 59 points 7 months ago (3 children) we have stood with the artist community against piracy Correct me if I'm wrong, but Anna's archive is not giving you song downloads, but rather metadata over a massive music data scrape So when are you going to sue AI companies? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 17 points 7 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (1 child) 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) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children) You can't sue people for something they haven't done yet. Presumably if and when the actual music files are released the damages will go up proportionally - probably to something like $(volume of the universe / Planck distance^3) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate? permalink fedilink source parent [–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago You can't No. Because you're meat. Wake the fuck up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago sue companies I don't understand. This sentence does not parse. Thats like sending an email to the legal department of my kidneys. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 17 points 7 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (1 child) 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) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children) You can't sue people for something they haven't done yet. Presumably if and when the actual music files are released the damages will go up proportionally - probably to something like $(volume of the universe / Planck distance^3) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate? permalink fedilink source parent [–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago You can't No. Because you're meat. Wake the fuck up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children) You can't sue people for something they haven't done yet. Presumably if and when the actual music files are released the damages will go up proportionally - probably to something like $(volume of the universe / Planck distance^3) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate? permalink fedilink source parent [–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago You can't No. Because you're meat. Wake the fuck up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago You can't No. Because you're meat. Wake the fuck up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago sue companies I don't understand. This sentence does not parse. Thats like sending an email to the legal department of my kidneys. permalink fedilink source parent