"The default judgement, issued on Tuesday by Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York, awards Spotify $300 million in damages, with UMG, WMG, and Sony Music awarded $22.2 million collectively."
"In its collective complaint, Spotify and Co described Anna's Archive's scraping activity as 'brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings.'"
"The ruling also includes a permanent injunction that requires internet service providers to block the Anna's Archive website, and an order for the shadow library to destroy all copies of works scraped from Spotify."
"Actually enforcing these demands will be an uphill battle, however, given the entities behind Anna's Archive still remain a mystery."
A $322 million default judgment was awarded to Spotify and major labels against Anna's Archive, which planned to release millions of music files scraped from Spotify. The lawsuit was initiated after Anna's Archive announced it had ripped 86 million songs and intended to distribute them via Bitorrent. The judgment includes $300 million in damages for Spotify and a permanent injunction to block the website. Enforcement may be challenging due to the anonymity of Anna's Archive's operators, who have previously evaded shutdowns by changing domain names.
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