News headlines in my country are like "Spotify attacked!!", "Millions of music tracks stolen!!".

Hilarious...

Let’s go for a 300TB USB key on AliExpress

I feel like this will put them much more under the authorities target, music is much more sensible than books, simply because it moves more money..

Anyway I still am wondering how they managed to do this and how they still didn't get caught, there must be reeeally good devs there.

One day (communities, localities or government libraries) will again host public goods information with free access. Fighting intellectual monopoly is fighting for the return of local libraries (just the modern ones).

The absurdity that western governments fight archivists is beyond insane. They should be helping to distribute and host the data.

The half life of data is getting worse not better in the digital age. These pirates are doing the work of the public good and being vilified.

See: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/digital-amnesia/

If instead of a giant omnibus torrent they put a folder structure on IPFS, it would be essentially a fully available streaming Spotify clone with the ability for people to "pin" tracks or albums or artists to have them stay locally on their device...

Just saying...

Very cool, though the quality leaves a bit to be desired.

For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Nice.

Would have been happy to pay but they just had to be a$$#oles

why must every good site draw attention to themselves like this? Make alternative site for music if you must make such a spectacle out of it, so when the hammer falls it doesnt take out the books too. Or at least have some kind of plan on how to survive it, which i really hope they do.

Call me when it's actually released. "We'll release the music in the future" is worth exactly as much content as "we'll release a Batgirl movie".

LET'S FUCKING GO