Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight * TorrentFreak
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Spotify and several major record labels have secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.

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.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

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

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      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.