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They argue that the shadow library failed to appear in court and ignored the preliminary injunction by releasing millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent.

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

Did they still not release the actual torrents though?

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Reminder you can use apps like spotube to stream music for free without giving Spotify a cent.

You can also use those savings to go to local shows, although going to one show a year is likely giving more to artists than streaming will.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Where did you get this screenshot from? I wanna see how much a platform would have paid my artists

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I got this from spotube it has a stats tab.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. Is spottube working well for you? I've always had trouble with it so now I'm on OpenTune which works wonderfully. On spottube for example, it would take about 40 seconds for a song to start playing after I hit play.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It works for me know but every now and again it breaks and I need to mess with the plugins it's using.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not defending streaming platforms, but this completely ignores infra costs.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why would include infra costs when I'm not using Spotify to play the music?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 28 minutes ago

I'm confused. Are you playing your local music?