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

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

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Post by KingOfCoders »

ben_w wrote: post #21
KingOfCoders wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Many of them. Way things are going, I suspect that many of people who are wanted by the American government will find friendly arms in China and Europe. (Perhaps even there I'm optimistic about Russia wanting to normalise relations? Or existing?)

I don't think with the EU, the EU bases its identity on rules for the better or worse.

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

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Post by Deadsunrise »

marand23 wrote: post #8
bstsb wrote: post #2

this won't actually change anything right? > the operators of the site remain unidentified. The judgment [...] orders Anna’s Archive to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, that includes valid contact information for the site and its managing agents

Slightly OT: How is it possible that the operators are unidentified? Surely someone must own the domain and pay upkeep for that? Wouldn't that expose at least one of them?

there are ways to buy domains using crypto and being completely anonymous.

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

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Post by input_sh »

Spotify was also forced to remove 60 or so endpoints from their API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

...and add a bunch of other restrictions like limiting API access to premium users, ludicrously increasing the cap for acceptance into the extended quota programme (250k MAU), and so on and so on.

So the most fucked in this situation are neither Spotify nor Anna's Archive, but anyone trying to build anything on top of what was up until this point the most straightforward to use API in the music industry, which annoys me to no end.

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

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Post by zaphirplane »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #13
marand23 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly OT: How is it possible that the operators are unidentified? Surely someone must own the domain and pay upkeep for that? Wouldn't that expose at least one of them?

Yes your honor, we've identified one Big Bird of 123 Sesame St as being affiliated with the operators of the site based on the registration data. The only reason you have to tell the truth is if you want to reduce the risk of arbitrarily losing control of the domain, such as having a chance to contest any abuse reports that might be filed against you.

It’s well established if the US wants to they can find them and crypto can be traced.

Same question though how are they paying for the domain, assuming this is on the plaintiff to trace

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

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Post by pjc50 »

noosphr wrote: post #26
KingOfCoders wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Putin is a Russian moderate. Anyone who pays attention to Russian politics prays for his good health and long life.

Difficult to imagine a less moderate policy than starting a war which gets hundreds of thousands of Russians killed. Starting a nuclear war?
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