Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

Post by andai » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

_-_-__-_-_- wrote: post #159

Last week, I set-up a navidrome (docker compose) server after tagging my files with MusicBrainz and beets. I serve it over a private network (tailnet) using tailscale serve. It works on all my devices and on iOS with an app called Nautiline. Nautiline has a feature where it will switch between my local network address and my tailnet address seamlessly. It was so simple, I can't actually believe it works. It has CarPl…

Post by andai » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

pessimizer wrote: post #170

TitaRusell wrote: post #112

I think AA should have stuck to book piracy. Nobody really cares about that.

I almost think this Spotify stuff is an op, just like I think the archive.org covid library was an op. Just pulling these targeted orgs into stupid decisions that will leave most of the public unsympathetic, in order to justify more law enforcement resources to go after them. When I imagine AA going offline for stupid pop music piracy, it makes me angry. They're basically where virtually all of the old archive.org ma…

Post by 6thbit » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

JoshuaDavid wrote: post #151

6thbit wrote: post #103

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who updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?

Would be fairly easy for them to offer an onion service on which they publish the current list of domains, as one option among many, many options for distributing small strings on the internet in an uncensorable way.

Post by throw0101d » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

Cpoll wrote: post #180

echelon wrote: post #163

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I don't know how to feel about any of this. First and foremost, I feel like Spotify is scummy. I don't like what they did when they were founded, I don't like what they do to artists. I hate the hyperscalers being in this business (Google, Apple, Amazon) as that's another thing they do that devalues an otherwise healthy market. Bringing in outside business division revenues to dump on another market's prices is ecolo…

> piracy brings artists absolutely nothing at all. This has historically been unclear. Lots of artists make more money from touring and merchandise than from record sales, and piracy is likely to boost those.

Post by andai » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

krabat wrote: post #83

So, let us assume AA could or would pay Spotify for "profits lost". Now that we know AA's abduction of files were the files that actually received playtime, we would immediately see a lot of music artists embursed, yes? Well... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Watch the Spotify DOCU.