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MU was paying the people that upload illegal content, specifically because they were uploading illegal content.
by hilbertseries 11y ago
MU was paying the people that upload illegal content, specifically because they were uploading illegal content.
- scrollaway 11y agoHow is that different to having your employees scraping torrent sites for music to add to your library?
- jamespo 11y agowho did that?
- scrollaway 11y agoSpotify during their early years. This is pretty well known.
- lmm 11y agoCitation needed. Are you sure you're not thinking of Grooveshark?
- scrollaway 11y agoSorry, I can't find an actual citation - if you ask any Spotify employee though, it's pretty much an open secret that Spotify's initial collection was scraped from the pirate bay.
- ewindisch 11y agoWhat is public knowledge is that CEO Daniel Ek was the former CEO of uTorrent. He has certainly made millions from online copyright infringement, if only perhaps, less directly than Kim-dot-com.
- cballard 11y agoI didn't know uTorrent was a company! I haven't used Windows in forever, so I've been using Transmission for a long time, but I feel like that's the equivalent of foobar2000 being a company or something.
- neutronicus 11y agoI mean YouTube gives content creators a slice of ad revenue, so... I don't know if this program was implemented before the copyright crackdown, though.