Spotify Just Won $322 Million From Music Pirates It Can’t Find

Spotify and nan 3 awesome labels person won a $322 cardinal default judgement against Anna’s Archive, nan open-source room and pirate activistic group that planned to publically merchandise millions of euphony files scraped from Spotify’s platform.

The judgement comes aft nan chartless usability of Anna’s Archive grounded to respond to a suit revenge by Spotify, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Group (WMG) and Sony Music, which was made publically disposable successful January. The suit was launched successful consequence to Anna’s Archive announcing successful December that it had ripped 86 cardinal songs from Spotify and intended to create a “preservation archive” for euphony by distributing nan files via BitTorrent.

In its corporate complaint, Spotify and Co described Anna’s Archive’s scraping activity arsenic “brazen theft of millions of files containing astir each of nan world’s commercialized sound recordings.” The protector room later released torrents for almost 3 cardinal euphony files successful February contempt nan ineligible ramifications it was facing.

The default judgment, issued connected Tuesday by Judge Jed Rakoff of nan Southern District of New York, awards Spotify $300 cardinal successful damages, pinch UMG, WMG, and Sony Music awarded $22.2 cardinal collectively. The ruling besides includes a imperishable injunction that requires net work providers to artifact nan Anna’s Archive website, and an bid for nan protector room to destruct each copies of useful scraped from Spotify.

Actually enforcing these demands will beryllium an uphill battle, however, fixed nan entities down Anna’s Archive still stay a mystery. And arsenic Billboard notes, Anna’s Archive has antecedently relaunched its operations connected caller domain names to forestall nan website from being unopen down.