[aleph_minus_one]

> 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).

[lukan]

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.

[MarsIronPI]

> 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.

[weslleyskah]

Exactly, this is why the 'Hydra' is difficult to take it down.

[rzzzt]

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.