Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion

Anna’s Archive reportedly scraped and mirrored nearly the entire Spotify catalogue—collecting metadata for 256 million tracks and approximately 86 million audio files into a file named spotify_clean.sqlite3—and announced plans to release it via BitTorrent; Spotify together with Universal, Sony and Warner sued for copyright infringement seeking statutory damages (cited up to $13 trillion) and secured a preliminary injunction to block distribution and force service providers to delist archive sites.