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Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight;In addition to the penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site's domain names (torrentfreak.com)
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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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[–] 67 points 6 months ago (8 children)

"Scraped from Spotify via Bitorrent" OK. That's not how that works.

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  • [–] 57 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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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