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Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem(www.404media.co)

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jonw@links.mayhem.academy
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I dunno. It’s not like the warez and stuff is IN Spotify.

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troed@fedia.io
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… anymore. In the beginning you could even find scene release group names in the album titles.

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/

h/t @rasmusfleischer@mastodon.nu

(although I do believe I am one of those persons who saw those filenames myself, but I mean … that was a looooooong time ago now)

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MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world
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Yup, I used to be in the scene and I’m a musician, had a bunch of my releases, both ones I couriered and albums I released on Spotify, names of songs with the same misspelling.

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