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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

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Post by dewey »

boxed wrote: post #60
dewey wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is nothing new. Remember when the US pressured Sweden into taking down the pirate bay (Very unsuccessfully)? Using global influence to get countries to do something that they would not do on their own has always been the case.

Pretty successfully I would say. Armed police raided the server hosting provider scaring the shit out of some dudes who were just monitoring the power basically. And people went to prison.

Depends on your definition of successful. If the goal was to take down the website that didn't work as it was back online hours after and is online to this day even if the organization behind it probably changed.

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

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Post by trollbridge »

petcat wrote: post #70
trollbridge wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Verizon does block catbox.

That's just because it's a frequent malware host. You can disable that in your settings or use a different DNS server.

It still counts as a block.

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

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Post by ndiddy »

asdfsa32 wrote: post #56
ndiddy wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They used Cloudflare as a CDN, so now they lose that protection. Additionally, depending on how far up the chain the publishers are willing to go, everything on the Internet eventually leads to Western jurisdiction. For example, even if the servers are located in Russia, Russia's IP range is controlled by RIPE NCC in the Netherlands. RIPE NCC's service agreement specifically says that IP registration does not constit…

I would imagine that implications of that would be big, it won't be swift, it will be very slow and steady, but big. See GPS for reference.

Yeah I don't think it would be a good thing, but I also think that just the threat of having their IP range cut off would make the provider drop them. The point I'm trying to make is that the actual provider hosting the content is far enough down the chain of command that sovereignty doesn't really matter if someone is sufficiently motivated to kick you off the internet. In practice I think this would lead to them hopping around providers or just going Tor only.

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

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Post by dmos62 »

dewey wrote: post #20
malfist wrote: post #3

Since when does a judge in NY get to tell Greenland they can't have their registrar sell to Anna's Archive?

This is nothing new. Remember when the US pressured Sweden into taking down the pirate bay (Very unsuccessfully)? Using global influence to get countries to do something that they would not do on their own has always been the case.

Let's not forget the Julian Assange extradition fiasco.

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

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Post by Lockranor »

thepasch wrote: post #75

If only the American justice system displayed a fraction of this same raging fervor when it came to crimes that actually caused harm to someone.

US Citizens are not served by their government; they are burdened with it. The EPA is arguing for preventing companies from accountability for poisoning us. That should tell you quite a bit about the depth of the rot.

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Post by IshKebab »

rendx wrote: post #67

The moment I saw their Spotify announcement I expected it to go bad. And they didn't even release anything from it other than metadata! (I understand this case is about their books, but I feel it got a lot more heat due to the Spotify action.) Please, dear Anna, don't disappear on us. We need you for the books! Plenty of sources for music around.

Yeah at the least they should have created a separate brand and released it under that.
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