They don’t

Why not just run the recordings through Shazam and note down the track ids from there?

8000 people used to high salaries and probably living in or around silicon valley with insane cost of living. I don’t have high hopes for them switching to working on fediverse projects…

No, not really. But I’m also lost as to what you mean.

Why are researchers conducting deadly attacks? Did they get frustrated from doing research?