That 300TB Spotify scrape just turned into a $300 million bill

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Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DRAnna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and major record labels $322 million over its huge Spotify scrape.Spotify received $300 million, based partly on the 120,000 music files Anna’s Archive had already made public.The final damages award is far below the lofty $13 trillion originally sought.The internet’s weirdest music piracy saga has just gotten a very expensive new chapter and, not unsurprisingly, the corporate giant has come out on top. Anna’s Archive, the shadow library that claimed late last year to have scraped almost all of Spotify, has now been ordered to pay $322 million in damages to the streaming platform and three major record labels.As reported by Engadget, a New York federal judge sided with Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment after Anna’s Archive’s anonymous operator failed to respond to the lawsuit. The April 14 court order found against the site on copyright and contract-related claims, although a separate claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was dismissed.