Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion for “brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings”.

I am personally not a very big fan of Spotify for a variety of reasons, I would not be against them losing this lawsuit. Especially with their moves toward AI, they seem to have very little respect for this media they claim to be defending.

Saving people a few clicks, lawsuit PDF here.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2026/01/Annas-A...

IANAL but I'm assuming their use of the word "theft" is purely for rhetorical effect--perhaps with an eye towards their demanded jury-trial--since most "theft" definitions require an intent to deprive, meaning it wouldn't apply to someone creating their own replica.

    COMPLAINT FOR:
    (1) Direct Copyright Infringement
    (2) Breach of Contract
    (3) Violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030
    (4) Violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201
    JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

To put that in perspective, $13T is 130x the amount Dr. Evil held the world ransom for in Austin Powers.

Fun fact: Daniel Ek just before founding Spotify was CEO of μTorrent. You will never guess what he used as initial music library for Spotify.

Wheel of life I guess.

For a less-serious but similar situation, Jason Scott (textfiles.com, Internet Archive) gave a hilarious DEFCON talk called "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY