Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find
Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform. The judgment comes after…
By · April 16, 2026 · 1 min read
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Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna’s Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify’s platform.
The judgment comes after the unknown operator of Anna’s Archive failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by Spotify, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Group (WMG) and Sony Music, which was made publicly available in January. The lawsuit was launched in response to Anna’s Archive announcing in December that it had ripped 86 million songs from Spotify and intended to create a “preservation archive” fo …
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