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Spotify wins case over 'billions' of Eminem streams
(www.bbc.com)
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Yes, but there is no technical justification for Spotify to not have real-time, remote access to a database, even if the database is constantly changing. We have had the technology to do that for 25 years. If Spotify is not properly handling the contracts to legally stream content, then some of the fault lays with them. Spotify is basically claiming their defense is ignorance. They can't be held liable because they didn't know what they could and couldn't stream. How is that a legal justification for breaking the law? And Kobalt's reasons for not letting Spotify know is also dumb.
How is Spotify supposed to "handle" anything here if the rights owner tells them that this is how it works? Like, not only didn't the first rights owner give them any means to stay updated with the rights, the new rights owner didn't notify them either that any rights were transferred to them before taking them to court. The only way to properly handle this would have been to tell them to get fucked, but that's not really an alternative if we're talking about the streaming rights for Eminem. This all seems like a setup to sue them... But who am I to tell? I'm just a jerk who read an article online. You know who should decide whether or not this was a scheme to drag Spotify to court? A judge.
Oh, wait, they did. Guess it's decided, then.