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A federal judge in New York issued a $322 million default judgment against Anna's Archive on April 14 after it scraped "nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings" from Spotify, with Spotify and the three major record labels as plaintiffs. The judgment is a default because Anna's Archive's anonymous operators never responded to the lawsuit—making collection essentially theoretical.
Anna's Archive, an open-source search engine for shadow libraries, is trending after a federal judge issued a $322 million default judgment against it on April 14 for scraping Spotify's commercial sound recordings.
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