US EditionSpotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
Judge Jed S. Rakoff also ordered internet providers to block the anonymous site and destroy copies of 86 million songs scraped from Spotify.
- Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District, New York entered a default judgment on Tuesday, awarding Spotify and major labels $322.2 million for copyright infringement by the pirate library Anna's Archive.
- Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony sued in January, describing the unauthorized scraping of 86 million songs as "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world."
- Judge Rakoff awarded $300 million to Spotify, calculated by multiplying 120,000 circumvention instances by $2,500 per violation, while the labels received $22.2 million for 148 identified copyright infringements.
- The court issued a permanent injunction requiring internet service providers to block the Anna's Archive website and ordered operators to destroy all copies of works scraped from Spotify's platform.
- Enforcing the judgment remains difficult because Anna's Archive is anonymously operated and has previously relaunched on new domain names to circumvent shutdown attempts, making the victory largely symbolic.
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Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
The open-source library and search engine Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three of the world’s largest music labels $322 million in damages after it claimed to have scraped the entirety of the streaming platform’s library of music. Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive in January for a slightly comical $13 trillion. They alleged Anna's Archive had illegally scr…
Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find
Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform. The judgement comes after the unknown operator of Anna's Archive failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by Spotify, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Group (WMG) and Sony Music, which was made publicly …
Spotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
Spotify and the three major label groups have been awarded a nine-figure copyright judgment against the pirate library Anna’s Archive — though at least for now, the victory is largely symbolic as the site is anonymously operated. A federal judge entered default judgment on Tuesday (April 14) against Anna’s Archive, which announced in a blog post this past December that it had scraped 86 million songs from Spotify and planned to distribute them…
That 300TB Spotify scrape just turned into a $300 million bill
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and major record labels $322 million over its huge Spotify scrape. Spotify received $300 million, based partly on the 120,000 music files Anna’s Archive had already made public. The final damages award is far below the lofty $13 trillion originally sought. The internet’s weirdest music piracy saga has just gotten a very expensive new chapter and, no…
Spotify and several major record labels ultimately obtained a default judgment for $322 million against Anna’s Archive, far from the $13 trillion initially sought, but with injunctions. [Read more] All our articles are also on our Google profile: follow us so you don't miss anything!
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