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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by xupybd on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:57AM (#23401424)
Not to mention Spotify or the early days of YouTube. Money is power, with enough of it you can bend the law.
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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by rightbyte on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:42AM (#23401646)
Spotify didn't have any fuckoff money in the start and the streamed stuff they got from the Piratebay. The authorities in Sweden didn't notice since they Spotify also tried at the same time to get proper contracts I guess and the music industry seemed to look through their fingers.

Youtube is more strange since they illegally hosted IP for a long while.

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by catalogia on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:12AM (#23403499)
> Youtube is more strange since they illegally hosted IP for a long while.

They still do, their ContentID system has a lot of holes.

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