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The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! [Unofficial]May 29

Viral Looksmaxxing Tutorial Just Pirated Copy of “The Ugly Stepsister”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/culture/viral-looksmaxxing-tutorial-just-pirated-copy-of-the-ugly-stepsister/

Rohit Farmer, Ph.D.Mar 9

People oppose the use of #AI and #LLM because they don't credit or compensate creators. What are your views about the #pirated material distributed by sites like Anna's Archive, Sci Hub, etc? Piracy sites have been operating for decades, long before any AI, offering books, movies, music, software, and more illegally, harming creators. But I never saw anyone adding a "/piracy" page on their website denouncing the use of pirated material.

#slashpages #piracy

Hacker News Mar 7

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

fairuse #bittorrent #piratedbooks #metaverse #copyright #law

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

Mathrubhumi English Dec 23, 2025

Spotify faces scrutiny over a massive 300TB data archive allegedly containing millions of pirated music tracks and metadata https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/spotify-investigates-alleged-piracy-of-millions-of-tracks-in-300tb-data-archive-nqrclh11?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Spotify #Pirated #Songs #AudioLibrary #TechNews

sakis Dec 22, 2025

So... someone scraped the whole spotify database containing the catalog and audio files. Let's see how long will it take for someone else to create a #pirated free #spotify alternative 🤔

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Blouie the Blue Heeler Nov 28, 2025

#Pirated content for #FursuitFriday 🏴‍☠️

Have an arrrrrsome weekend 😋

Featuring @khaleta.bsky.social and yours truly at #Eurofurence 2022 in #Berlin

📸 @captainchaotika.bsky.social

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Sep 9, 2025

#Anthropic to pay #authors $1.5bn to settle #lawsuit over using #pirated #books to train #AI

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/anthropic-to-pay-authors-1-5bn-to-settle-lawsuit-over-using-pirated-books-to-train-ai/

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5bn to settle lawsuit over using pirated books to train AI

Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to a settlement fund that is expected to cover roughly 500,000 titles.

Music Business Worldwide

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Fabrizio Musacchio Sep 6, 2025

"#Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it #pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its #AI tools."

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settlement-lawsuit-copyright/

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

WIRED