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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by immibis on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:48AM (#43204611)
If an individual did this, or what Facebook did, they'd get a prison sentence. Should startup founders give themselves prison sentences?

Spotify only got away with it after the fact because they pivoted to a model that gives money to the people who wanted to put them in prison before. And Facebook got away with it becau it's big.

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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by consumer451 on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:56AM (#43206279)
> Should startup founders give themselves prison sentences?

Well this is the interesting thing. Have there been any, aside from the Mega example?

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