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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)

submitted 8 months ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 7 points 8 months ago

Based

[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

99% of the "original" Spotify's contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago

BLESSED

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago (10 children)

But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?

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[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was there really much content on it that wasn't already available in a torrent somewhere already?

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