Spotify is often credited as the music service most in tune with the 'pirate' mentality, having converted millions of former file-sharers in recent years. Interestingly, according to writer and researcher Rasmus Fleischer, a decade ago the site actually populated its beta with pirate MP3s, including some that were only available on The Pirate Bay.
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.
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.
Use the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.
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.
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.
I didn’t share, because I didn’t care.
That’s why I use OCHs