Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

A U.S. federal court ordered Anna’s Archive to pay Spotify and major record labels $322 million.

The court acted after Anna’s Archive failed to defend claims that it scraped tens of millions of Spotify songs and planned to distribute them.

The ruling underscores the legal risk of large-scale scraping and shows massive damages can be imposed even if the defendant does not appear.

One Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) claim was dismissed.