Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight;In addition to the penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site's domain names

We fought the man and won.

I think Anna is a woman's name. /s

now this is what resistance looks like and i would hazard a guess they're not commies

To go even further, Anna's Archive has a section for LLM training that the big ones use. Apparrently it's okay if they use data that has been ruled to be illegal.

Maybe they didn't like that it was then given to people for free

Yeah, I mean, it's mostly that.

Watch how many will bend the knee

Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.

Gee I wonder why warehouses keep catching fires lately…

They don't care and will continue to do it.

Anna's Archive: The New One

you can check these mirror lists for alternatives when the current domains go down

https://shadowlibraries.github.io/

https://open-slum.org/

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.

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.

They were meaning that they released via BitTorrent the tracks which were scraped from Spotify

I think it’s just poor wording. It says they released tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. I think the punctuation and sentence structure is awkward. I think what they were trying to say was more along the lines of “they scraped millions of tracks from Spotify, and released them via BitTorrent.”

Still not technically correct, because you don’t release things via BitTorrent. But it at least clarifies that the songs were first scraped, and then released via torrent.

Actually, for a while Spotify did use the BitTorrent protocol for content delivery. So this isn't too far-fetched.

...briefly released millions of tracks, scraped from Spotify, via Bittorrent.

Would have worked better with commas, but makes sense?

In other news. Alans-Archive.se has just released all of Spotify's music catalogue.

They declare them a "john doe" defendant

No, to enable (in the addiction sense) the greed of others. Not "satisfy." Because it can never be satisfied: they will take and take and take and take until there is nothing left, and still demand more.

Nah, thats too quick

Why? Is there anything good in there?

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-pm-domain-adds-greenland-gl-backup/

They never released music, just metadata. It doesnt matter. This injunction is just legal posturing. They have no jurisdiction to tell foreign domain registrars to do anything. It takes an actual cop walking in on a data center to finally seize a site (surrender hard drives, reroute domains, etc.) If the server is in another country, it takes years to go through the red tape. If the country is not collaborative, it will never happen, specially since piracy is seen as a very low priority issue in the grand scheme of cyber crime.

No. They aren't letting animals loose. They lost their court case.