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Moby licensed every song from "Play" for commercial use. The exposure made "Play" a huge hit for him. This is just a variation of that.

This is an attempt to grab a slice of the pie before AI-generated music kills the market for session musicians. His terms of use are odd, but that's his choice.

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With all the charity work Moby does, I get the impression he's pretty comfortable cash-wise.

Personally, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and saying that his intentions are earnest here; he really does want to put free music in the hands of creators. Maybe if he'd launched a $MOBY memecoin alongside it I'd be skeptical, but my gut says this isn't a venture he expects to make real money from.

I guess that's why I'm even more disappointed in the complicated commercial licensing. If you don't need the money, just let people use it no strings attached (or, with just the political strings attached--more okay with that than the money, honestly)

Moby launched this site TWENTY YEARS AGO, before YouTube even existed.

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