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Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion (hackread.com)
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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 61 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 18 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 3 weeks 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)

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I am not sure the shareholders will accept such a meager compensation. Did you include emotional damage in your estimate?

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can't

No. Because you're meat. Not a real person with articles of incorporation and a robust legal department. Wake the fuck up.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

sue companies

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