How does this cost any money besides cost of bandwidth?
They pay the author, and white noise is streaming all night.
How is white noise even something that someone can have a license on?
Shouldn’t it be identical no matter where you listen to it and therefore impossible to get money from?
If it’s well made truly random noise, then it would never be identical. That’s why it’s costing Spotify so much in the first place. Compressors can’t reduce storage and bandwidth use because it’s always different. Even if the human ear can’t discern the difference.
This galaxy brain over here making me think about compressing after encryption vs compressing encrypted data.
I would wonder if it’s just procedurally generated random noise, can it be said the file has human artistic intent and can it be protected under copyright?
It’s not actually all white noise. It’s stuff like waves crashing, raindrops, etc.
