They argue that the shadow library failed to appear in court and ignored the preliminary injunction by releasing millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent.
They argue that the shadow library failed to appear in court and ignored the preliminary injunction by releasing millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent.
Not defending streaming platforms, but this completely ignores infra costs.
Last time I checked someone stole all their data and it was only 300TB.
Data is cheap. Even cheaper when its peer to peer.
Yes, data is cheap. Infra is not
When its just serving and gating access to flac files, it really isn’t that complicated of an application, and serving content is a known quantity with cheap tooling.
Just don’t use vercel, bro.
Why would include infra costs when I’m not using Spotify to play the music?