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This is a good chance for some chinese or russian grey-area service to collect all this music and make a spotify killer that works in the west (like netease and kugou don't)
This is much smaller than their original announcement. In December, AA said they had archived 256 million spotify tracks. A release of 2.8 million tracks only accounts for 1% of the Spotify archive.
They're probably not releasing all of files at once.
I'm confused about why they're claiming responsibility for these things at all
It would become obvious once they release the files anyway
what a heat score. maybe infiltrated by wreckers who are trying to draw attention.
won't somebody tell these nerds about front groups
Because the notoriety is their armour.
These releases rely on a massive amount of storage capacity from volunteers to seed these archives as quickly as possible. The more people sharing them, the faster the network grows, and the harder it is for feds to shut it down.
Flashy releases help start the swarm fast, and make the fallout easier to manage as lawyers dont had the leverage of being able to shut down some server to kill the whole thing. Doing it in stealth wouldn't benefit much, especially with how trivial it would be to source the original archiver anyway.
2.8 million tracks totaling roughly 6 terabytes
Is that really it? I have like a 1TB of music myself, most of it 320/CBR or V0 MP3 and I don't think I have an amount equivalent to theirs at whatever bit rate they have them at. I'm assuming it is not the 128 KB/S streaming quality Spotify has
Edit: I looked it up in Musicbee. I have 123,664 music files/songs and it's 966.7GB. I don't see how I have just short of 1% of the amount of music on Spotify. I should be like 0.01% unless Spotify isn't really that popular for old music and stuff. There's so much music being made in the world. Maybe they didn't do a full scrape.
The files are OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s or OGG Opus at 75kbit/s
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