this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
220 points (100.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

59920 readers
172 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
all 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] conciselyverbose 137 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 89 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Aurenkin 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why arrest them and then have to go through such a troublesome legal process that might not even result in a conviction?

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, maybe all 500000 will "learn their lesson", like Assange...

[–] TheMalWare@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming it's not an alias lol

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 10 points 9 months ago

😤 as far as I'm concerned every Anna is guilty until proven innocent. After that we can investigate Berta.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 95 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] freeman 16 points 9 months ago

But they have ordered the complete destruction of all torrents!!

Which is Canute level of absurdity.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 38 points 9 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?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 29 points 9 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 9 months ago

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

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 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.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

wait'll they find out about libraries.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No need to invoke copyright. They'll just do it to own the libs.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

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