Free file sharing is progressive because it recognises the increasingly socialised nature of artistic production and distribution.
Copyright and "intellectual property" is reactionary and backwards-facing, because it seeks to uphold private property. This is simply utopian in the age of the internet, when media can be reproduced totally free of cost.
The only way to protect artists is not to hearken back to the past, but to recognise the socialised nature of cultural production, and demanding the creation of state-backed artistic and cultural institutions and cooperatives, which can pay wages to artists, and commission their work in the interests of public enjoyment, not private profiteering.
Spotify music library scraped by pirate activist group and made available as a torrent.
Includes 86M audio files, now circulating in bulk torrents totaling ~300 terabytes.
Spotify is "actively investigating the incident."