Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks

https://lemmy.world/post/12029451

Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks - Lemmy.World

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.

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