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basiswordyesterday at 9:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes stealing other peoples things to 'give them away' is very noble. The meta data is useless to me. I can no longer build an app on top of Spotify's API because they've had to lock it down.


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ricardobeatyesterday at 9:42 PM

Have you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?

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MarsIronPIyesterday at 9:43 PM

I really hate people using terms like "theft" or "piracy" to refer to the act of artificially-limited copying. Copying something does not take anything away from the person you're copying from inherently. Theft does. And piracy is like theft, but with murder and kidnapping too.