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.

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    21 hours ago

    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.comEnglish
      28·
      15 hours ago

      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.