Dossier
music piracy
Coverage of music piracy in the Nexus archive.
- Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find
Spotify and the three major music labels won a $322 million default judgment against Anna's Archive, an open-source library that scraped 86 million songs from Spotify. The judgment followed Anna's Archive's failure to respond to a lawsuit alleging unauthorized distribution of music files.
- Supreme Court makes it harder for music and movie makers to sue for online piracy
The Supreme Court dismissed Sony's lawsuit against Cox Cable, which accused the internet service provider of facilitating music piracy. The ruling limits the legal options available to creators to hold ISPs accountable for copyright infringement.