[nottrobin]

I don't agree. The size of the set is of paramount importance to that point. They can always bring the mean down by just adding more recordings to the set, to further obscure how popular the most popular recordings are. In a set of 10 billion, of course people aren't listening to most of them.

Quite clearly what the plaintiffs are afraid of is that there are a few very popular works in there that they could be making real money from. There's no way to know this from the mean alone.

[6510]

That is far from the truth.

The companies have very successful legal departments. They go after the next lowest hanging fruit. They are just working, it's their job description to do this. This is why they will never stop, it never gets too absurd or overly unreasonable.

edit: Deleted fake example

[scotteh]

This appears to be a hoax.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/metallica/

[6510]

haha, that I was unable to tell the difference says a lot.

[tga_d]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

[mlyle]

Even if all the traffic were from 100 pieces, that's a few thousand downloads per month. Let's talk about those specific pieces, then, instead of trying to obliterate an archive.

[dmbche]

They got 400 000 records in the collection, I don't think they're being dishonest here