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.
AI still out here taking everything. Only the corporations can steal. Maybe they didn’t like that it was then given to people for free, instead sold again.
In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains
Bahaha, Fuck Off. The world doesn’t recognize your authority.
Watch how many will bend the knee
does this set precedence for online platforms to sue AI platforms for all the data collection? /s
That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.
Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.
So, this sentence says it’s actually illegal to download copyrighted material through shadow libraries, I get it and now I wonder what could this mean for Meta’s AI case?
They don’t care and will continue to do it.
Same
So uhm, what’s the new name? Asking for a friend.
They used a neat trick and just spelled the first name backwards! annA instead of Anna!
Just go to the wiki and look up the domains in the right.
They did it guys!!! Piracy no more /s
Only billionaires and friends allowed
Gee I wonder why warehouses keep catching fires lately…
“Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent” OK. That’s not how that works.
briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent.
That’s just an awkward sentence construction but it makes sense: they released track via Bittorrent. The tracks were scraped from Spotify.
I sold my car that was purchased from a dealership via private party sale.
I charged my laptop that normally accepts 100W via a 20W phone charger.
I would’ve used a “which” phrase with commas to avoid the confusion, but the sentence as written is valid and makes sense.
Poorly worded
Actually, for a while Spotify did use the BitTorrent protocol for content delivery. So this isn’t too far-fetched.
Spotify itself started by using pirated music, so this is all a bit ironic.
…briefly released millions of tracks, scraped from Spotify, via Bittorrent.
Would have worked better with commas, but makes sense?
Fuck Spotify and their ICE recruitment ad bullshit.
Why? Is there anything good in there?
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.
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.
I love it when they declare fantasy judgements that are never going to be paid.
Why not make it an even $400 million?
Ahhhh, Napster/Kazaa and Metallica vibes all over again.
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i’m angry at them for being fucking idiots sure but like genuinely this could be a massive problem for all of us.
They didn’t even respond to the charges, which are unenforceable.
“Charges” don’t get “enforced”. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
I’m confused by your comment and several people have upvoted it so I guess I need to ask what you’re talking about. I started quoting but it’s just reposting your comment basically. Do you think Anna is the perp they’re suing? Are you saying it’s public because it’s a website and not a torrent or such? (there are like…tons of websites for streaming and downloading pirated stuff…)
How is this a massive problem for all of us? How is this different from any other website posting pirated stuff and getting taken down/legal action against them over the past like… 2 decades? Rereading the article didn’t make anything clearer, I’m genuinely just confused on what you’re saying.
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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.
