How is this not apartheid?

> big yikes for something coming out of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Besides the unit flub, there's an unpleasant smell of sales flyer to the whole piece. Hard data spread all over, but couldn't find efficiency figures. Casual smears such as "even the best new grid-scale storage systems on the market—mainly lithium-ion batteries—provide only about 4 to 8 hours of storage" (huh, what, why?). I could also have used an explanation of why CO2, instead of nitrogen.

Yeah,how devstating it would be for Anna's Archive to be found skirting copyright laws. Their reputation may never recover.

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This is insane.

I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this.

The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumers/listeners, since Spotify itself is so convenient, and trying to locate individual tracks in massive torrent files of presumably 10,000's of tracks each sounds horrible.

But this does seem like it will be a godsend for researchers working on things like music classification and generation. The only thing is, you can't really publicly admit exactly what dataset you trained/tested on...?

Definitely wondering if this was in response to desire from AI researchers/companies who wanted this stuff. Or if the major record labels already license their entire catalogs for training purposes cheaply enough, so this really is just solely intended as a preservation effort?

Eh, defeatist attitude. It isn't that hard to anonymize and obfuscate your data.

The issue is everyone is willing to trade convenience for security.

The point of no return is an individual choice.

The NASDAQ line go up model is why the AI boom is happening and a major factor in why it is Western companies leading the charge. The more bigger issue is that the west refused to sell chips to China so they had to figure out how to make their own. And margin compression is what free markets do. That is one of the big motivators to putting free markets everywhere, the freer the market the more compressed the margins become. All the people working hard at crappy jobs start working hard at high paying jobs instead until the competition drives the money out of the sector.

There is a theme in the industries China does well in - western regulators ban cut-throat competition, China competes very hard and wins. The situation at scale is pretty straightforward. Usually it is environmental or labour policy, so this case of the root cause being sanctions is a bit unusual. But, once again, how Nvidia is meant to compete in China when their best products can't be sold there?

same is true in many startups

The alternatives are not so viable. Librewolf is nice, but is still just 99% Firefox. Same with the Chromium-based browsers. We need real alternatives in this space.

Why do you believe it will fail? Because some companies will not be profitable?