- cross-posted to:
- technology@piefed.social
- technology@lemmy.ml
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- technology@piefed.social
- technology@lemmy.ml
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna’s Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in court and briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. In addition to the monetary penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names.
Last I heard they only released the data on what they had, when did they release the actual music?
They never released music, just metadata. It doesnt matter. This injunction is just legal posturing. They have no jurisdiction to tell foreign domain registrars to do anything. It takes an actual cop walking in on a data center to finally seize a site (surrender hard drives, reroute domains, etc.) If the server is in another country, it takes years to go through the red tape. If the country is not collaborative, it will never happen, specially since piracy is seen as a very low priority issue in the grand scheme of cyber crime.
it never will. like “illicit” subs went down on reddit in '16, they fled to foreign sites so the us cant touch them,