15 comments

  • rcbdev 1 day ago
    As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

    Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.

    • faangguyindia 23 hours ago
      1. Create a law

      2. Break it when it's more profitable to break it and pay fines.

      That's what people with power have always done.

      Let it be taxi madallion or ai training on other people's code and books.

    • iamsaitam 23 hours ago
      What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.
      • pavel_lishin 15 hours ago
        What if I walk out of a museum having taken a high-quality photograph of a photography exhibit? What have I stolen, then?
      • Parae 19 hours ago
        If you go to a country, steal all the art, create a museum in your country, make money out of it, how would you call it ?
        • none2585 14 hours ago
          The British Museum
      • rcbdev 19 hours ago
        But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.
      • WarcrimeActual 18 hours ago
        Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.
  • roscas 1 day ago
    I never used spotify and will never use but let me just congrat you for your site that uses no crap of google or ads. It is that rare to see this. HN is another decent on, but 99% of web sites are a privacy and malware nightmare.
  • mdrzn 13 hours ago
    Very cool, but tried pasting a few playlists and it never fetched more than 95/98 tracks (playlist had 100+ tracks in it). I'd be interested in the open source version, so I could run it locally on cron.
  • sky2224 1 day ago
    > 03 audio sourced from the web

    Where? How do I know you're not pulling from some shady repository?

    • petterroea 1 day ago
      Maybe will get a resurgence of the limewire-style pranks people are so nostalgic for
      • WarcrimeActual 18 hours ago
        I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.
    • nickphx 1 day ago
      shady repository of... audio? to what end?
  • HDBaseT 1 day ago
    How good is your opsec?
  • pseudosaid 1 day ago
    the github mentions tidal integrations. i hope they are adding random delays between each download or that user is gonna get their account auto deleted by tidal.
  • stephenlf 1 day ago
    i guess we’re doing piracy now
    • cauefcr 1 day ago
      were we supposed to have stopped at some point?
    • WarcrimeActual 18 hours ago
      It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.
  • Messyflame 1 day ago
    Everything is paid nowadays, which makes it harder for a user to access something. Great solution.
  • phantomathkg 1 day ago
    It doesn't work for some alnum/song however.
  • konaraddi 1 day ago
    > couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable
    • konaraddi 1 day ago
      Nvm! I used an artist link but it needed a track link
  • finghin 22 hours ago
    Seems to have gotten hugged to death.
  • WarcrimeActual 1 day ago
    So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.
    • conception 1 day ago
      I don’t think it’s very gray actually.
      • WarcrimeActual 18 hours ago
        I like to leave room for a generous interpretation of things. Again though, I find piracy to be more compulsory than optional in the fight against corporations that have more money than God and fewer morals than Satan.
  • Artoooooor 1 day ago
    This is comically blatant. Tell law enforcement you are downloading these tracks to train AI and you're safe.
  • vsgherzi 1 day ago
    the project mentions the github but I can't seem to find it, any links?
  • robofanatic 1 day ago
    this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!