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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.

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 110 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago

Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It says the operators are unknown, but also failed to appear in court. If they don't even know who the operators are, how would they supoena them to come to court in the first place? 🤨

In other news. Alans-Archive.se has just released all of Spotify's music catalogue.

They declare them a "john doe" defendant

[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 53 points 6 days ago

Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.

[–] eah@programming.dev 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Why? Is there anything good in there?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I love it when they declare fantasy judgements that are never going to be paid.

[–] Saffire@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I wonder if that money goes on the company's balance sheets before it's paid.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Why not make it an even $400 million?

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[–] Arklese1zure@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription and just downloaded all my music. It's a bit of initial effort, but the experience is so much better.

I wonder how far will people need to be pushed before price and restrictions outweigh convenience.

[–] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Yep same here, used an extension to read my Spotify library and turn them into youtube .mp3's, then went in and redownloaded any that got messed up or were live versions not the album song, and now I just add songs using NewPipe as they come up!

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I've given them 2.5k

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope every music industry executive gets run over by a Mack Truck.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Going in reverse up a hill with a full load

[–] phx@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So uh, do they have a list of domains that should be blocked then? One that we can check out to... uh... ensure our kids aren't going there and stuff.

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this a reverse play? Does that ruling leave open the door to similar rulings against llms? Why did they offer no contest at all?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why did they offer no contest at all?

Likely because contesting it would require doxxing themselves. The site’s admins survive on anonymity. And you can’t exactly be anonymous in court filings.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

There's also nothing saying they are even in the US. Or at this point even human

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The real judgement was to force the domain registrars to comply since they have something they can take. The archive can just move to new domains.

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Am i just dumb for not finding the torrents ? Ive been looking around and cant find them !

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 3 points 5 days ago

its 185.178.208.181 btw

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Loses
Where exactly have they lost a game that hasnt even ended?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No. They aren't letting animals loose. They lost their court case.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Weird way to correct way to make me aware of a grammatical error but appreciated either way

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I was clarifying how to use loose vs lose using context. If you're going to correct someone be sure your correction is correct.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I like their attitude.

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I'm sure that will keep it offline.

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