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Re:How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first leg... by yashwastaken on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:47AM (#28594368)
But pirating music is different from streaming it on some application. Like you don't own the music file you're just streaming it from some servers(in case of downloading you still need the app and can't share it to some other device).
Re:How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first leg... by martin_a on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:51AM (#28594407)
I don't think that matters.

Everybody had a bunch (or thousands) of MP3s because mobile phones weren't a thing, fast mobile connections weren't a thing and there was simply no infrastructure to have something like Spotify.

If we'd have Spotify with everything in 2003, we would not swap hard drives in school breaks.

Re:How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first leg... by jazzyjackson on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:38PM (#28598686)
I was a subscriber to “Yahoo music unlimited” in 2005 and transferred my DRM’d WMA files to a zen micro with a 4GB spinning disc.

granted, i never met anyone else at school doing the same thing.