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0 pointslukan2mo ago0 comments

Fortunately, Spotify does not have that power. Annas Archive is not based in US or EU jurisdictions. They can make access for normal people a bit harder, but not shut it down.

(Edited for clarity)

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aleph_minus_one2mo ago

> Fortunately, Spotify does not have that power. They are not based in US or EU jurisdictions.

Perhaps I misunderstood something, but according to my understanding

1. Spotify is registered in Luxembourg and has its operational headquarter in Sweden (Stockholm). Both are EU countries.

2. I guess it won't be Spotify that sues, but the individual music labels (very likely united).

lukanOP2mo ago

Annas archive is not based in the EU (sorry for being not clear). So the law in EU is limited to enforce a ban. In germany it is already "banned" via ISP but just DNS.

But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts.

So unless the EU installs a great firewall like china, they cannot really shut it down.

MarsIronPI2mo ago

> But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts.

I believe the "official" AA servers only host the website + source code. The actual copyrighted content is stored by volunteers who seed the torrents.

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rzzzt2mo ago

Presumably the opposing party is residing in non-US-or(and? depends on the order of evaluation)-EU territory, but I might be mistaken. "They" refers to both sides in the parent comment.

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