Spotify's $322M Victory Against Elusive Music Pirates
Spotify and major labels win default judgment against the anonymous operator of Anna's Archive, a pirate group that planned to release millions of music files scraped from Spotify.
In a major legal victory, Spotify and the three major record labels - Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Group (WMG), and Sony Music - have been awarded a $322 million default judgement against the unknown operator of Anna's Archive, an open-source library and pirate activist group that had planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform.
The judgement comes after the anonymous individual behind Anna's Archive failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by the music giants in January. The lawsuit was launched in response to Anna's Archive's announcement in December that it had ripped 86 million songs from Spotify and intended to create a
Source: The Verge
