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Story summary
- U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff ordered Anna’s Archive to pay $322 million for illegally scraping nearly all commercial sound recordings from Spotify.
- Spotify and major record labels filed the suit after Anna’s Archive announced a preservation plan to distribute 86 million music files via BitTorrent.
- The ruling also requires internet service providers to block access to the site.
- The operators’ anonymity raises questions about how damages will be collected.
