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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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That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.
Lawyers be making money filing lawsuits against ghosts. Happy hunting boys.
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.
I like their attitude.
I hope every music industry executive gets run over by a Mack Truck.
Nah, thats too quick
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.
they did this publicly. they attached their names to it. pretty much everyone was saying that it was a horrible idea to do so. they did it knowing it wouldn’t only effect them but also piracy as a whole. i’m angry at them for being fucking idiots sure but like genuinely this could be a massive problem for all of us. thanks Anna’s Archive, you really showed them /s
I’m confused by your comment and several people have upvoted it so I guess I need to ask what you’re talking about. I started quoting but it’s just reposting your comment basically. Do you think Anna is the perp they’re suing? Are you saying it’s public because it’s a website and not a torrent or such? (there are like…tons of websites for streaming and downloading pirated stuff…)
How is this a massive problem for all of us? How is this different from any other website posting pirated stuff and getting taken down/legal action against them over the past like… 2 decades? Rereading the article didn’t make anything clearer, I’m genuinely just confused on what you’re saying.
They didn’t even respond to the charges, which are unenforceable.
Requiring domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names is unenforceable?
literally in the article
At the same time, however, it is not guaranteed that the site’s domain names will be suspended.
As reported previously, several domain names, including the Greenland-based .gl version, are linked to registries and registrars outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. court. As such, they previously did not comply to the preliminary injunction, and it is unknown whether the latest order changes that.
“Charges” don’t get “enforced”. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
i’m angry at them for being fucking idiots sure but like genuinely this could be a massive problem for all of us.
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
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!
huge if true
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Presented without comment.
Misogyny makes you think all your worthy enemies are male
woof…
So uhm, what’s the new name? Asking for a friend.
They used a neat trick and just spelled the first name backwards! annA instead of Anna!
you can check these mirror lists for alternatives when the current domains go down
Anna’s Archive: The New One
Just go to the wiki and look up the domains in the right.
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.
Maybe they didn’t like that it was then given to people for free
Yeah, I mean, it’s mostly that.
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.
Watch how many will bend the knee
“Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent” OK. That’s not how that works.
I think it’s just poor wording. It says they released tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. I think the punctuation and sentence structure is awkward. I think what they were trying to say was more along the lines of “they scraped millions of tracks from Spotify, and released them via BitTorrent.”
Still not technically correct, because you don’t release things via BitTorrent. But it at least clarifies that the songs were first scraped, and then released via torrent.
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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.
Poorly worded
Actually, for a while Spotify did use the BitTorrent protocol for content delivery. So this isn’t too far-fetched.
They were meaning that they released via BitTorrent the tracks which were scraped from Spotify
Or they don’t understand the topic
They did it guys!!! Piracy no more /s
Only billionaires and friends allowed
Gee I wonder why warehouses keep catching fires lately…
