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

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393 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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. lysace ◴[07 Jul 25 16:14 UTC] No.44491845[source]▶
You are missing the point. Spotify had permission from the copyright holders and/or their national proxies to use those songs in a limited beta in Sweden. They didn't have access to clean audio data directly from the record companies, so in many cases they used pirated rips instead.

What you really should be asking is whether they infringed on the copyrights of the rippers. /s