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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 lokar »

ndiddy wrote: post #39
randomtoast wrote: post #8

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.

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…

It might be simpler/faster to get US based transit providers to block the Russian ASN

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

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Post by Lucasoato »

jiveturkey wrote: post #92
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?

Since when does a commission in the EU get to tell the entire World how to treat Personal Data?

How to treat European Citizens' personal data.

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

gruez wrote: post #47
thelastgallon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, perfectly okay for large companies for billionaires. As long its structured as a corporation, with the super wealthy as the majority owners, have the connections to get federal laws passed to grant monopolies and enable congress insider trading, everything is okay! Some examples, there are probably hundreds more: 1) Its okay for pharma companies to provide addictive drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_f…

>1) Its okay for pharma companies to provide addictive drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family Yes, with FDA approval. You can dispute whether the approval should be granted in the first place, but that's not at all comparable to some drug dealer slinging fentanyl on some street corner. Not to mention this happened decades ago, before the current wave of corruption in the whitehouse. Finally, isn't the wh…

Corporations are more about privatizing the profits and sticking taxpayers with cleaning up the mess.

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

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Post by FireBeyond »

jiveturkey wrote: post #92
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?

Since when does a commission in the EU get to tell the entire World how to treat Personal Data?

You as a business are free to not to business with Europeans.

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

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Post by jasonmp85 »

random3 wrote: post #90
rvnx wrote: post #84

Why LLM companies that depended on Anna's archive end up so clean ? Looks like Anna's archive was doing the dirty work, and the LLM companies were reaping the profits (and ironically still do, as they hold the largest databases of pirated content in the world). Is it because the law doesn't apply to you when you have 1B USD ?

While that may be the case it’s hard to make this claim when: - Anthropic settled a similar case - Anna didn’t show up in court

Anthropic knows they could just pay off the aggrieved party.

The operators of Anna's know they will go to prison.

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

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Post by gmueckl »

aaomidi wrote: post #48
jubilanti wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since when does a judge in NY get to tell Greenland they can't have their registrar sell to Anna's Archive? Since September 30, 1998, when ICANN was founded in the US.

cTLDs do things very differently

But the authoritative root server set is maintained by ICANN, so they have ultimate control (for now) and can essentially dictate terms for all TLDs.

I wonder whether we wventually see some other power establish their own root servers which mirror only the parts of ICANNs DNS that are politically convenient to whoever does this.

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

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Post by soupspaces »

StableAlkyne wrote: post #50
laichzeit0 wrote: post #4

So what stops them from just changing it to NotAnna's Archive and operating under that domain?

Isn't that what's been happening to the Pirate Bay for 20 years? They lose one domain, so they just register a new nearly-identical one

Hail hydra

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

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Post by qweiopqweiop »

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.

Metadata? Pretty sure they scraped the files and released them too.
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