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Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/annas-archive-said-spotify-scrape-didnt-cause-domain-suspension-it-was-wrong/
52•voxadam•1h ago

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ChrisArchitect•1h ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497164
ronsor•1h ago
Unfortunately for Spotify, court orders are ineffective against foreign nationals sharing information. Copyright enforcement is as futile as the encryption "export restrictions" the US and other countries tried in the 90s and early 2000s.
snowmobile•19m ago
Since they don't "own" the data they lost, only "rent" it, they probably have to be seen doing something about it, lest they face the wrath of record companies.
JasonADrury•10m ago
I have a really hard time imagining the record companies giving a shit about this, this isn't a pre-release leak. All the valuable content is already freely and easily available for download on the internet.
endofreach•59m ago
what‘s in it for spotify? i can‘t think of a single person who‘d stop paying for streaming services (music) in favour of going back to illegally download or (or even legally purchase) songs & managing their own library. m a y b e some devs would. but those thinking about it, wouldn‘t be stopped like that. i am thinking about it, yet i just renewed my subscription because i lack time & motivation to crawl down yet another rabbit hole of diy.
snowmobile•23m ago
Many people are cancelling Spotify among my friends, even very "non-technical" folks. For me I've just gone back to radio or Youtube:ing a few songs for free here and there. Paying the cost of a lunch every month is just not worth it anymore for subscription services.
ulrashida•18m ago
Exactly this. Increasing prices with worsening service and feature bloat combined with questionable ethics made it an easy decision to cancel.
parpfish•10m ago
This is also a big party of why artists don’t earn shit.

Spotify will never be able to pay out enough of people don’t think this music is worth paying for.

They want access to every new album but refuse to pay how much a single new CD would have cost back in the day

whywhywhywhy•18m ago
>what‘s in it for spotify?

Their relationship with the labels

ezst•16m ago
I will never START paying for Spotify. I like my music and so I like to know my music, I have no problem curating my collection, chasing rare works for artists I really like. I enjoy the process, I enjoy the result, I enjoy that I own it. I really don't see why I would rather spend hundreds a year for the privilege of owning nothing at all in the end, while being prescribed what I shall listen to, when and where.
sdoering•14m ago
IF I were still a Spotify user - this would be the nail in the coffin. Not that the founder wouldn't give me enough reason. But they lost me due to other reasons.

I am still paying for streaming, though. Still. Not sure if it is really worth it - and once I have my local mp3 collection available for myself - not sure, if I need a paid streaming service. I am getting too old and I return more and more to the songs I grew up with. And to be honest - if I would be missing anything, I could easily yt-dlp it, store it on my server and have it available ti myself via self hosted streaming.

I am loosing more and more interest in streaming. For video and music.

cdrnsf•6m ago
I run a Navidrome server I stream my own music from. I tag everything with Mp3tag and have a shell script to organize and upload the tagged files. Not all of the music I listen to regularly is on Spotify and their treatment of artists is abominable.
CryptoBanker•6m ago
Perhaps worried about downloads being used for training music models
dang•26m ago
Recent and related. Others?

Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497164 - Jan 2026 (358 comments)

Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355793 - Dec 2025 (82 comments)

Backing up Spotify - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339 - Dec 2025 (701 comments)

akersten•20m ago
But you can't even download the allegedly infringing material from the .org site. You can just read about it? So they're abusing the All Writs Act to take down a site that they think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing for their business. If I wasn't on Anna's side before, I sure am now.
franze•9m ago
Deezer has in its onboarding flow a pretty cool "get your lists from spotify" feature. from all liked/currated songs - a few thousands - it could not match about 2.
DyslexicAtheist•3m ago
could you expand on this please? if I understood correctly then Deezer fails to match songs from a list of thousands? thanks
xmonkee•8m ago
Technical question: I run my own Pi hole dns server. Is it possible to just add an A record for it? What are you guys doing to get around this?
cdrnsf•4m ago
Pretty ironic considering they bootstrapped the service with pirated music. But they've never actually cared about music — they started as an ad platform and music was the cheapest option for then to attract eyeballs.

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