Re:Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay
by pmarreck on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:43AM
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I was making that point, and ALSO the point that the perceived slight was purely in the eye of the beholder, I edited my comment to add a link to a 2011 academic paper on Spotify's P2P architecture that proves that they were not being cagey or secretive about this part of the design, it was already "out there" and if it just so happened to first cross this guy's radar when he saw the outbound traffic on his own network, he can't really blame Spotify, he can only be indignant at his own ignorance.
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Re:Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay
by suneilp on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:22PM
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So now every ordinary person is going to read academic papers to ensure that a service or product meets decent moral and ethical standards?
If it wasn't on their website designed for selling, then they don't really have an excuse. That is the spot where those kind of details should be mentioned.
Re:Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay
by pmarreck on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:53AM
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> a service or product meets decent moral and ethical standards?
I don't know what your standards are here but "an app that both sends and receives data from the Internet" pretty much describes every app in popular existence right now