225
Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 25 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 138 points 2 years ago (1 child)

As a default judgement because they don't know who runs it lol.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anna runs it

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah like duh it's right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Assuming there is about 500.000 Annas in the US alone (according to Wolfram Alpha), good luck with that! :D

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Arrest all the Annas, when you have immunity, they let you do it if it is an official act.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 98 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good luck finding the owner, and also good luck shutting down their hundreds of torrents and thousands of peers (which will definitely never happen)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    5M to protect against scraping? That sounds... a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn't sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Defendants, through the Anna’s Archive domains, have made, and continue to make, all 2.2 TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC wrote in the complaint it filed in an Ohio federal court.

    It was 2.2 TB that is nothing...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Seriously... I've downloaded 2TB in a week before.

    I get that it's not about the bandwidth, though; it's about needing to upgrade their security since they scraped the site without needing to log in, so obviously their site wasn't secure. They're claiming IT costs as damages.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    They should have had security in place beforehand if they didn't want people to scrape their site. If AA hadn't done it someone else would have. Don't make it public if you don't want people to use it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    wait'll they find out about libraries.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hope they don't find out about libraries. I feel like usa is going to ban libraries soon because of copyright.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [+] 1 point 2 years ago*
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •