In a move sure to attract attention from the music industry, a small group of coders claiming to be part of Anonymous is putting together a social music platform. The rather ambitious goal: Create a service that seamlessly pulls up songs streaming from all around the internet. The project, called Anontune and still in its infancy, is designed to pull songs from third-party sources like YouTube and let anonymous users put them into playlists and share them — while keeping the service from being shut down by music industry lawsuits. Reached by e-mail, one of the creators of Anontune told Wired the project was started by a group of anons who met online six years ago on what was then an underground hacking site. The group, mostly focused at the time on "cracking," began discussing music, favorite artists and what they would do to fix current music business models.
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Group identified as Anonymous putting together a social-music platform
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Anontune is designed to pull songs from third-party sources for users
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Using the service will require loading code written by 'Anons' on your computer
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"We would say stuff like, 'People really use @placeholder as a music player yet it really sucks for that purpose ... it's too unorganized,'" the anon wrote to Wired.
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"It has come to our attention that the state of online music has been sabotaged by the fat hands of corporate involvement," the @placeholder video's voiceover states.
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Although the site is still very crude and its origins obscure, the idea of @placeholder — even a few far-flung members of the group — tackling online music is compelling.
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"We have a lot of plans regarding this," the Anontune co-creator told @placeholder.