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Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

The open-source library and search engine Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three of the world’s largest music labels $322 million in damages after it claimed to have scraped the entirety of the streaming platform’s library of music.<br /> Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive in January for a slightly comical $13 trillion. They alleged Anna's Archive had illegally scraped 86 million songs — a significant chunk of all the music on the planet — and intended to make them available for download via BitTorrent. At the time, Spotify called the scraping a "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings."<br /> In a since- [...]

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Sony and other music labels settle copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive

In 2023, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, which sought to preserve and digiti [...]

Match Score: 151.81

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Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped Spotify in its entirety

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 mill [...]

Match Score: 127.11

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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported. The [...]

Match Score: 103.72

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Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing [...]

Match Score: 101.45

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Spotify partners with the big three music labels on 'artist-first AI music products'

Spotify sees the music industry's AI problem, and it's going to do… something about it. On Thursday, the company published a blog post heavy on principles, partnerships and vague plans. Un [...]

Match Score: 95.02

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The Morning After: The best games of 2025

As many of us hunker down for the holidays, you might want to tackle some of the best games we’ve seen this year: the long-time-coming Silksong, the critically acclaimed (and sumptuous) Expedition 3 [...]

Match Score: 93.85

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Spotify tries to defend its artist payout rates

It's no secret that Spotify isn't a big money maker for most artists. But, in its annual Loud & Clear report, the music streamer is trying to change the narrative, reiterating an earlier [...]

Match Score: 92.73

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How to cancel your Spotify subscription

Spotify recently came under fire for running recruitment ads for ICE, which ask users to "join the mission to protect America" and to "fulfill [their] mission," in the US. Despite [...]

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Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

The Internet Archive has often been a valuable resource for journalists, from it's finding records of deleted tweets or providing academic texts for background research. However, the advent of AI [...]

Match Score: 82.26