Tidal class-action


MQA declared bankruptcy.  I smell the fear of a class action lawsuit against Tidal.  We could do that.  Tidal has 8 million subscribers, we don't know how many or how long they all were paying double by subscribing to the 'nobody can prove Tidal has any tracks higher than 44.1khz' plan.  They probably have lots of people on phones who haven't even heard of MQA who trust them and wanted the one that sounds better.  They're right not to have to listen to any talk about MQA if they want the plan that sounds better.

MQA means you can't prove the file is an original copy or not. That Beethoven track you like it says is 192 could actually be Dua Lipa at 11khz.

The bankruptcy move was probably to protect themselves from Tidal, who is the receiver of people's funds.

 

audioisnobiggie

Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water.  Those sales are good for people who don't have much capital, too.  Hey, maybe there's a nice desk chair at there?  Noo, it's MQA, you would be too.

The point is that we could go for our money back, because we can't prove that mqa tracks are the original unaltered streams that their licensing must have required, otherwise the artists could go after them also.  The thread is gauging the reaction to the hypothesis.

 

 

I'd join that class action suit but I'm too busy sliding bamboo slivers under my fingernails. Maybe next time!

I should be posting this in a lawyer’s forum.

Let's get Julia Roberts to find us someone like the lawyer from that poison water movie.

@audioisnobiggie 

Surprised, but not surprised.

Ditched MQA long ago and Qobuz is finally coming to Canada in May, so it will soon be adios to Tidal as well.

What does intrigue me is what happens to the pirates at MQA should they be deemed to have scammed their clients. 

Put on the popcorn.