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.
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- phx@lemmy.worldEnglish20 minutes
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.
37 minutesI 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.
Looses
Where exactly have they lost a game that hasnt even ended?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? 🤨
- 21 hours
That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.
- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.
- dasrael@lemmy.zipEnglish20 hours
Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.
- LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish21 hours
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?
- 15 hours
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.
- Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
There’s also nothing saying they are even in the US. Or at this point even human
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?
I hope every music industry executive gets run over by a Mack Truck.
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.
- Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
Be quiet about that, if they hear it’ll reduce their list of suspects by half!
- shirasho@feddit.onlineEnglish1 day
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.
does this set precedence for online platforms to sue AI platforms for all the data collection? /s
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.
- testaccount372920@piefed.zipEnglish2 days
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.
