What happens after a Spotify account ban? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sometoruser@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi piracy community,

I'm currently thinking about developing a tool which allows downloading songs from Spotify. Now, I don't think this is allowed in Spotifys ToS and I wanted to ask, if anybody has any experience with getting their Spotify account banned.

I have 3 main questions:

Can I appeal my ban?
What happens if the account is part of a family? Does the family owner get punished?
Does the payment method get locked?

Any and all help would be appreciated!

Note: I know that tools for this already exist, but I want to write my own.

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[-] sometoruser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify does not have the power to lock your credit card or paypal account.

That's not what I meant. Sorry, I might've not been clear there. I was asking, if they would block the creation of new accounts with the same payment method(e.g. same PayPal account).

I am not sure if they would take down an entire set of family accounts.

Yeah, this what I worry about. I thought about if I can just add burners to my family account, but I am not sure if they would ban my main or the entire family.

If you are fine with 160kbps OGG files, you dont even need a paid account.

A good idea, if you want the higher quality, would probably be to use gift cards, which you can buy at the store. I don't think that you can trace these back to a real name and the most I could loose would be 10 Bucks or smth.