>It's their platform, they can do whatever they want.
Surely that's proper legal standing, next to the user can cram it, arguably. There are basic rights and to forbid the use of any can't be broken by contract. IMHO access to arbitrary data on the net should be included, because otherwise it's restricting the market, obviously to artificially drive up the prices. That's against the free market principle, but maybe it's necassary to get the userbase to generate revenue. Soundcloud is not profitable right now. I'd contest that it is necessary, though there is responsibility on the user not to abuse Soundcloud's offering. I'd argue that download rates would be enough to meassure popularity or for whatever they need the data, which is listening behaviour. I'm not sure the law intends to protect Big Data collection on privacy grounds, if data is cleaned up. used for all but what comes down to accounting.
I used soundcloud-dl.py in the past, because the page didnt work for me. Don't know if it still works. I found it very convenient since I'm not interested in the networking features either. I don't understand why people depublish pieces and very much like to keep them. Copyright-Law grands the right to rewoke copyright or perhaps doesn't grant it to the public in case of transmissions to begin with. I'd argue though that with the event of computers and the net, where you select the transmission yourself, the lines are blured. If program-code needs to be specifically excempt from the copyright, in order to legalize loading into RAM any data you bought, then receiving a transmission is a copy as well. I don't know if there are exceptions to the exception, or the transmissions - it's not a persistent copy. Still, you aquire it and the ability to record it is a functional requirement, it's not like a performance that could be given without recording it.
Surely that's proper legal standing, next to the user can cram it, arguably. There are basic rights and to forbid the use of any can't be broken by contract. IMHO access to arbitrary data on the net should be included, because otherwise it's restricting the market, obviously to artificially drive up the prices. That's against the free market principle, but maybe it's necassary to get the userbase to generate revenue. Soundcloud is not profitable right now. I'd contest that it is necessary, though there is responsibility on the user not to abuse Soundcloud's offering. I'd argue that download rates would be enough to meassure popularity or for whatever they need the data, which is listening behaviour. I'm not sure the law intends to protect Big Data collection on privacy grounds, if data is cleaned up. used for all but what comes down to accounting.
I used soundcloud-dl.py in the past, because the page didnt work for me. Don't know if it still works. I found it very convenient since I'm not interested in the networking features either. I don't understand why people depublish pieces and very much like to keep them. Copyright-Law grands the right to rewoke copyright or perhaps doesn't grant it to the public in case of transmissions to begin with. I'd argue though that with the event of computers and the net, where you select the transmission yourself, the lines are blured. If program-code needs to be specifically excempt from the copyright, in order to legalize loading into RAM any data you bought, then receiving a transmission is a copy as well. I don't know if there are exceptions to the exception, or the transmissions - it's not a persistent copy. Still, you aquire it and the ability to record it is a functional requirement, it's not like a performance that could be given without recording it.