Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak
Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak
Popular pirate library search engine Anna's Archive faces monetary damages and a permanent injunction at a U.S. court.
Good luck finding the owner, and also good luck shutting down their hundreds of torrents and thousands of peers (which will definitely never happen)
But they have ordered the complete destruction of all torrents!!
Which is Canute level of absurdity.
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?
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...
Just set a torrent size of 10tb and hit go. I'll move that to permanent storage when it's done.
Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once
but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!
They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It's not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.
Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.
Very saddened to see this, AA was so cool
I wish I had backup of it. It's all hosted offsite right? Just a collection of links?