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[–] conciselyverbose 137 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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

Assuming it's not an alias lol

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

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

[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 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 4 months ago

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

Which is Canute level of absurdity.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wait'll they find out about libraries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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