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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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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.
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
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
Why? Is there anything good in there?
Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.
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
I hope every music industry executive gets run over by a Mack Truck.
Nah, thats too quick
Going in reverse up a hill with a full load
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 !
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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.
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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I have mixed feelings. I do support the Swartz-influenced “information should be free” perspective, and I acknowledge that progressing toward that end requires popularizing a sentiment that influences the democratic process, while it still has some teeth.
But, no doubt popularity shines a spotlight on all data sharing, and link aggregators don’t have as much skin in the game as file hosts. Enabling easy access accelerates the war on information access. Perhaps it’s naive to think piracy and/or information sharing can compete with the deep pockets of capitalist stakeholders. However, I also think this conflict is inevitable as it becomes cheaper and easier to ID all users on a network. I wonder if the time is nigh for the activism that underpins a lot of the information underworld to play out. We are clearly in the acceleration phase of the human arc. Piracy becoming “annoying” is the least of our problems.
I initially downvoted you but then upvoted because I do think your comment valid and emblematic for some in the scene.
They didn’t even respond to the charges, which are unenforceable.
Requiring domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names is unenforceable?
literally in the article
At the same time, however, it is not guaranteed that the site’s domain names will be suspended.
As reported previously, several domain names, including the Greenland-based .gl version, are linked to registries and registrars outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. court. As such, they previously did not comply to the preliminary injunction, and it is unknown whether the latest order changes that.
Not all domain registers are under their jurisdiction. And domains change constantly.
“Charges” don’t get “enforced”. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
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.
