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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by josephcsible on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:36AM (#36404676)
Did you miss this sentence, or are you disagreeing with it?

> According to Capitol Records, Inc. v. MP3Tunes, LLC, this is absolutely OK in the eyes of the law

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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by pjc50 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:27AM (#36405397)
What precisely does "this" refer to in that sentence?

https://casetext.com/case/capitol-records-inc-v-mp3tunes-llc

From a quick read of that, it appears that Mp3tunes lost the case, had a huge damages award made against them, as happens a lot, and the overall damages were deemed excessive and reduced to $750k.

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Re:Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm op... by tzs on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:57PM (#36406968)
I haven't actually read the case, but from the summaries I've seen it sounds like MP3Tunes won on the parts that matter when it comes to whether or not one can legally run a music locker service without permission from the copyright owners.

In particular is said that the DMCA safe harbor is available to such services, and that deduplication is not a problem.

MP3Tunes did not adequately deal with DMCA takedown requests so didn't get full safe harbor protection leaving them liable for some user's uploads. Also MP3Tunes' founder had infringing songs stored and they got nailed for those.

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