Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight * TorrentFreak
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Spotify and several major record labels have secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.

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.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    12 hours ago

    A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that’s a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.

    But it does make life a bit harder for Anna’s archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won’t.