That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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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
Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.
Why? Is there anything good in there?
I love it when they declare fantasy judgements that are never going to be paid.
I wonder if that money goes on the company's balance sheets before it's paid.
Why not make it an even $400 million?
Ahhhh, Napster/Kazaa and Metallica vibes all over again.
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.
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!
I've given them 2.5k
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.
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.
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?
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.
There's also nothing saying they are even in the US. Or at this point even human
Am i just dumb for not finding the torrents ? Ive been looking around and cant find them !
its 185.178.208.181 btw
Loses
Where exactly have they lost a game that hasnt even ended?
No. They aren't letting animals loose. They lost their court case.
Weird way to correct way to make me aware of a grammatical error but appreciated either way
I was clarifying how to use loose vs lose using context. If you're going to correct someone be sure your correction is correct.
I like their attitude.
Yeah I'm sure that will keep it offline.
We sued people. Well, I think. Since the people are unknown. They didn't show up, so we won. Now unknown people need to pay whatever we say they should pay.
Great job, let's pat ourselves on the back. We fought the man and won.
now this is what resistance looks like and i would hazard a guess they're not commies
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