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You can’t become a billionaire by respecting laws and other people
Use the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.
Someone at one of these massive companies needs to setup a seedbox in the datacenter (and cover their tracks internally) so when they try to use this justification, audits confirm that they’d actually been seeding a fuckton.
Every user of that spotify beta was a leech and spotify was the only seeder for all of them.
The meta defense only works if you make an llm output a more or less corrupted version of your warez.
To paraphrase an impeached president:
When a corporation does it, it’s not illegal.
Edit: corrected the impeachment status of the president making the quote.
Google also seems to pad their library with stuff uploaded to YouTube, which I’m pretty sure includes stuff not uploaded by authorized individuals.
Music streaming services are crooked AF
