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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by gedaliyah to c/technology
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They frame it as though it's for user content, more likely it's to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yet another example of why if you can't download DRM-free files of your media, it's not worth having. Spotify is absolute trash and I have no idea why it's as popular as it is. Get you some damn MP3s/Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/whatever DRMless copies of your audiobooks and music and to hell with this streaming shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

So...in the future you might want to consider actually reading the article before commenting.

[–] abessman 4 points 10 months ago

DRM has absolutely nothing do to with this.

[–] mods_are_assholes 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But that takes a tiny bit of knowledge and most of humanity is so stupid they don't even realize their phone has a directory structure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

despite many devices actually having a file selector that shows the directory structure