{"id":63771,"date":"2026-01-21T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?p=63771"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:06:47","slug":"spotify-music-labels-seek-trillions-in-damages-in-lawsuit-against-annas-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/spotify-music-labels-seek-trillions-in-damages-in-lawsuit-against-annas-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify, music labels seek trillions in damages in lawsuit against Anna\u2019s Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spotify and the world\u2019s largest record labels have filed a federal lawsuit against Anna\u2019s Archive, seeking trillions of dollars in damages over what they allege was a large-scale effort to copy and distribute nearly the entire commercial music catalog available on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/spotify-record-labels-piracy-lawsuit-annas-archive\/\">Billboard<\/a>, Spotify filed the lawsuit in New York federal court on Dec. 29 alongside Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The complaint alleges the defendants engaged in the \u201cbrazen theft of millions of files\u201d containing nearly all commercial sound recordings, describing the effort as an attempt to create a pirated version of Spotify\u2019s service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an emergency restraining order on Jan. 2 aimed at stopping the distribution of the alleged pirated files. The order effectively disabled the Anna\u2019s Archive domain, rendering the website inaccessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiffs allege widespread copyright infringement and are seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work, which would amount to as much as $12.9 trillion if applied to the roughly 86 million tracks referenced in the case, Billboard reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The labels and Spotify are also seeking damages for alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, while Spotify separately accuses Anna\u2019s Archive of computer fraud and breach of its terms of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna\u2019s Blog, which is linked to Anna\u2019s Archive, claimed in December the group had scraped Spotify at scale. The blog said the archive contained metadata for approximately 256 million tracks and audio files for about 86 million songs, covering nearly all Spotify listens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group described the project as a \u201cpreservation archive\u201d and said the data was distributed via torrents totaling nearly 300 terabytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spotify has <a href=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/spotify-disables-accounts-tied-to-alleged-copying-of-its-music-catalog\/?swcfpc=1\">previously said<\/a> it disabled user accounts involved in unlawfully copying large portions of its catalog and implemented additional safeguards to detect and prevent large-scale scraping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the court order rendered the site inaccessible through standard web access, users on social media have indicated that Anna\u2019s Archive has not been fully taken offline and remains reachable through alternative means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify and the world\u2019s largest record labels have filed a federal lawsuit against Anna\u2019s Archive, seeking trillions of dollars in damages over what they allege was a large-scale effort to copy and distribute nearly the entire commercial music catalog available on the streaming platform. 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