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Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight (torrentfreak.com)
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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.

Anna’s Archive did not show up in court, and the operators of the site remain unidentified. The judgment attempts to address this directly, by ordering Anna’s Archive to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, that includes valid contact information for the site and its managing agents.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

They weren't going to show up because no one knows who is running it and showing up might leave some sort of trail that could be used to identify them.