On: Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

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That's what they're doing now, when they are established.

But when it was a proof of concept, they were using pirated data.

Just like Spotify did.

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Sorry I'm out of the loop: how did Spotify use AA or other pirated data?

[Anamon → treszkai]

I'm not sure if this was ever really confirmed, but it's been said that in the beginning, before they were big enough for record labels to care, they used unlicensed MP3s to build up the library.