Spotify and Record Labels Win $322 Million Against Music Pirates Anna’s Archive But Can They Collect?
A federal judge in New York awarded Spotify and the three major record labels a $322 million default judgment against Anna’s Archive on April 14, 2026. The shadow library scraped approximately 86 million music files from Spotify and distributed some of them via BitTorrent in defiance of a court order. The site’s operators remain anonymous,…
