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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was at least in part a piracy site. Everything was uploaded by users. It was a piracy site in the same sense that early music content on YouTube was. It was mostly users uploading in the early years. This is why there was a massive lawsuit against YouTube back then. And why we got content ID, etc.

This also often meant the audio compression was random, and sometimes terrible. On grooveshark and YouTube. And on YouTube the native bitrates were terrible 2006-2010 or so.

Your mom was right. But she was probally wrong about it spreading malware.