Shocking. Absolutely riveting outcome that wasn’t expected whatsoever. /s
That being said though, the weirder part for me is the fact that apparently they weren’t able to obtain the operatives behind the website. So this was essentially a court case that was filed, put into session and then given judgment without even ever identifying the defendants that are on trial.
That seems really weird to me.
Not that it matters since this isn’t going to get paid anyway but funny that the bulk of the judgement is to be paid to Spotify for building a shitty service rather than the rights holders of the music.
Hopefully non-US registrars and governments will stand up to this abuse.
Those labels didn’t suffer any damage. That’s all money to line their pockets and push more AI slop, not to benefit human creators.
On the bright side, they’re unlikely to see a penny from it, and have incurred lawyer costs and time.
True. Hopefully they spent lots on outside law firms. They’ll get paid unless they stupidly said they’ll just take a cut of the damages, like injury firms do.
default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna’s Archive.
So isn’t this kinda like raising their fists up to the sky and screaming “reeeeeeeee!!”? They don’t even know who they were suing. lol
I’m hoping it has no effect, since I use Anna’s Archive almost every single day.
