> "hundred" -- not a million but a hundred -- that were copy-pasted from Genius at some point.
To be fair, they can probably only confirm incorrect lyrics. Correct ones would look the exact same. Presumably, the vast majority are correct
To be fair, they can probably only confirm incorrect lyrics. Correct ones would look the exact same. Presumably, the vast majority are correct
They should be able to accurately confirm whether hundreds of thousands of songs were taken from Genius, without any difficulty.
Unlikely. Official lyrics (printed in CD inserts, for example) often have punctuation mistakes, or they have no punctuation at all.
Unofficial lyrics can have the same words while still differing in punctuation, line breaks, capitalization, or spelling (since most languages have multiple ways to spell the same word -- color/colour, for example).
All the tiny variations could easily create a distinct fingerprint for each source of lyrics.
See: Van Halen, R.E.M., and a million other bands.