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Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months 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?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 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...

[–] Bakkoda 2 points 4 months ago

Just set a torrent size of 10tb and hit go. I'll move that to permanent storage when it's done.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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.