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The open-source room and hunt motor Anna’s Archive has been ordered to salary Spotify and nan 3 of nan world’s largest euphony labels $322 cardinal successful damages aft it claimed to person scraped nan entirety of nan streaming platform’s room of music.
Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive successful January for a somewhat comical $13 trillion. They alleged Anna's Archive had illegally scraped 86 cardinal songs — a important chunk of each nan euphony connected nan satellite — and intended to make them disposable for download via BitTorrent. At nan time, Spotify called nan scraping a "brazen theft of millions of files containing astir each of nan world’s commercialized sound recordings."
In a since-deleted blog post, Anna's Archive stated nan scraping was an enactment of preservation. Still, a New York national judge sided pinch nan plaintiffs aft nan archive's anonymous usability grounded to respond to nan lawsuit.
The court order uncovering Anna's Archive blameworthy of nonstop copyright infringement, breach of statement and usurpation of nan Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) was revenge connected April 14. A further declare of usurpation of nan Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was dismissed by nan judge.
The full breakdown of damages includes $7.5 cardinal to each of Sony and Universal Music and $7.2 cardinal to Warner Music, pinch nan remaining $300 cardinal going to Spotify. The second fig amounts to $2,500 for each of nan 120,000 scraped euphony files already made disposable by Anna’s Archive. The remainder of nan 86 cardinal files were owed to beryllium released to nan nationalist astatine a later date.
The tribunal besides ordered Anna’s Archive to "immediately destruct each copies and phonorecords of immoderate activity ‘scraped,’ downloaded, copied aliases different extracted from Spotify," but whether it really does this, aliases so hands complete a penny of nan damages, remains to beryllium seen. The bizarre reality of this lawsuit is that nan personification (or people) down Anna’s Archive remains a mystery.
