Online piracy has been with us since the beginning of the internet, and Spotify has become one of the platforms that decided to start fighting it. To prevent people from having to illegally download music tracks or entire albums, the application made them available to everyone for free. Those who sign up for a subscription have more options and more features, but the basic idea does not change. The world was recently shocked by a case where hackers decided to download almost the entire Spotify database and put it on torrents.
Shadow Music Library with a name Anna's Archive at the end of last year, she directly boasted of having obtained metadata for 256 million songs and audio recordings to 86 million songsAccording to the pirates, it was about archiving music, in case Spotify ended. But everything quickly reached the federal court in New York, which sees the case completely differently. Theft 300TB of data has been flagged as a violation of copyright and terms of service and Anna's Archive must pay 322 million dollars.
Spotify originally demanded a much higher fine – for itself and the damaged music labels (Universal Music Warner Bros. Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment) wanted from pachatrecord-breaking numbers 13 trillion dollarsThe court called this excessive, but nevertheless ruled in favor of the injured parties. And ordered the destruction of all copies made.
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Spotify redesign
Spotify can now celebrate a major victory. And symbolically, it is culminating it with a design change – even if the timing is rather coincidental. Android tablets and iPads are currently getting a completely new user interface that is significantly different from the mobile one. So far, it was just an enlarged variantu with the same button layout and the same functions. Users will now be able to adaptive orientation in height and width and new sidebar allowing parallel browsing.
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The biggest advantage of the update, which is already available, is that it Spotify on tablets, it will instantly adjust to their current position. Or, it will flip to horizontal or vertical position. The collapsible sidebar will be expandable and will make it easy to search for more music without interrupting the playback of the current one.
This is another important improvement to the application, which comes shortly after adding easier video controls and offering a new audiobook summarySpotify is also increasingly playing with artificial intelligence, and recently introduced a feature Prompted Playlists, which allows you to create playlists of podcasts on demand.
