I love it when they declare fantasy judgements that are never going to be paid.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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I wonder if that money goes on the company's balance sheets before it's paid.
Why not make it an even $400 million?
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I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription and just downloaded all my music. It's a bit of initial effort, but the experience is so much better.
I wonder how far will people need to be pushed before price and restrictions outweigh convenience.
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!
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It says the operators are unknown, but also failed to appear in court. If they don't even know who the operators are, how would they supoena them to come to court in the first place? 🤨
In other news. Alans-Archive.se has just released all of Spotify's music catalogue.
They declare them a "john doe" defendant
So uh, do they have a list of domains that should be blocked then? One that we can check out to... uh... ensure our kids aren't going there and stuff.
Why? Is there anything good in there?
That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.
Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.
its 185.178.208.181 btw
The real judgement was to force the domain registrars to comply since they have something they can take. The archive can just move to new domains.
We sued people. Well, I think. Since the people are unknown. They didn't show up, so we won. Now unknown people need to pay whatever we say they should pay.
Great job, let's pat ourselves on the back. We fought the man and won.
We fought the man and won.
I think Anna is a woman's name. /s
Be quiet about that, if they hear it'll reduce their list of suspects by half!
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Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.
So, this sentence says it's actually illegal to download copyrighted material through shadow libraries, I get it and now I wonder what could this mean for Meta's AI case?
They don't care and will continue to do it.
Same
AI still out here taking everything. Only the corporations can steal. Maybe they didn't like that it was then given to people for free, instead sold again.
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.
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Am i just dumb for not finding the torrents ? Ive been looking around and cant find them !
In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains
Bahaha, Fuck Off. The world doesn't recognize your authority.
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does this set precedence for online platforms to sue AI platforms for all the data collection? /s
So uhm, what's the new name? Asking for a friend.
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!
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They did it guys!!! Piracy no more /s
Only billionaires and friends allowed
Gee I wonder why warehouses keep catching fires lately…
The US music industry has always been bullshit, going all the way back to record labels. I would feel bad for the artists, but I don't give two shits about the distributor who acts like they own the music and feels entitled to all monetary rewards for someone else's work.
Is this a reverse play? Does that ruling leave open the door to similar rulings against llms? Why did they offer no contest at all?
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.
There's also nothing saying they are even in the US. Or at this point even human
"Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent" OK. That's not how that works.
...briefly released millions of tracks, scraped from Spotify, via Bittorrent.
Would have worked better with commas, but makes sense?
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.
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Funny, the statute $2500 should be for the circumvention act, which was likely singular, not per file obtained during or as a result of the act. And the $150k is ridiculous in and of itself, even if for all files obtained. What a strange world we live in.
Spotify built a system of control in order to profit a few at a cost to many, perhaps everyone else.
Someone broke that system in order to benefit many, possibly at the cost of some of their ability to profit from their system of control--if they didn't lose customers, or prospective customers, they didn't experience any financial loss, or a loss in their ability to maintain their system of control (which is still very much in place and working).
Either way, nobody was hurt.
But the person who acted selflessly to benefit of society in general is punished.
Because... We, as a society, celebrate and work effortlessly to maintain complex systems of abuse in order to satisfy our greed or the greed of others. All despite being taught in school not to lie to and bully each other, and to share with and care for each other.
As a species: We are bat shit fucking crazy!
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Loses
Where exactly have they lost a game that hasnt even ended?
Fuck Spotify and their ICE recruitment ad bullshit.
A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that's a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.
But it does make life a bit harder for Anna's archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won't.
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