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Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

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Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#21
This is just another move in a game played by the tech overlords.

It has never been so obvious as now, that justice is not blind. Without justice there is anarchy.

And at this point, to be honest, I say bring it on- let's have the day of retribution before the billionaires have their AI robot armies.

Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#22

They 100 percent sit in Russia, which will 100 percent ignore this, even if their identity gets uncovered. So it's perfectly safe to continue for the operators.

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Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#23

Next week American ISP's will block Annas-archive, people use VPN's, they get confused. The cycle goes on

It's only the domains that have been seized. US ISPs don't block websites in the same way they do in EU or China.

Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#26
Anna's archive is a professional nonprofit business with donation tiers for terabyte bundles of stuff for greedy hoarders and llm trainers. Their style suggests they have other goals than freedom of information and reminds of the super rich wikimedia foundation always campaigning for more money.

Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#28

AI companies can download books but people can't? Is that right?

AI companies were cited as a reason in the case: > The publishers argued that, in addition to sharing pirated books with the public, the shadow library is serving as a primary training data hub for AI companies like Meta and NVIDIA.

Everyone trained on Anna's Archive.

Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

#29

AI companies can download books but people can't? Is that right?

No? AI companies have been hit with court cases for that. Google, xAI, Open AI, and Meta at least.

Were these from the same high-profile publishers?

What was the judgment? Seems that their domains are still active. Why is there a difference in judgment here?

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