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

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397 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[07 Jul 25 16:21 UTC] No.44491910[source]▶
This isn't as meaningful as it sounds. Nintendo was apparently using scene roms for one of the official emulators on Wii (I think?). Spotify might have received legally-obtained mp3s from the record companies that were originally pulled from Napster or whatever, because the people who work for record companies are lazy hypocrites.