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Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

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397 points pyman | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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marapuru ◴[07 Jul 25 11:17 UTC] No.44489031[source]▶
Apparently it's a common business practice. Spotify (even though I can't find any proof) seems to have build their software and business on pirated music. There is some more in this Article [0].

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

Funky quote:

> Rumors that early versions of Spotify used ‘pirate’ MP3s have been floating around the Internet for years. People who had access to the service in the beginning later reported downloading tracks that contained ‘Scene’ labeling, tags, and formats, which are the tell-tale signs that content hadn’t been obtained officially.

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1. pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:22 UTC] No.44489086[source]▶
It was the opposite. Their mission was to combat music piracy by offering a better, legal alternative.

Daniel Ek said: "my mission is to make music accessible and legal to everyone, while ensuring artists and rights holders got paid"

Also, the Swedish government has zero tolerance for piracy.

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2. pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 12:17 UTC] No.44489565[source]▶
I know this might come as a shock to those living in San Francisco, but things are different in other parts of the world, like Uruguay, Sweden and the rest of Europe. From what I’ve read, the European committee actually cares about enforcing the law.
3. eviks ◴[07 Jul 25 15:50 UTC] No.44491607[source]▶
Mission is just words, they can mean the opposite of deeds, but they can't be the opposite, they live in different realms.