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

Post by sixtyj » Wed, May 20, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #114

bubblegumcrisis wrote: post #108

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Here's a question- and while I admit it is quite extreme- I've wondered this for quite some time- do please tell me why I'm wrong, because I feel as if I've started believing this more and more: Could 5% of humanity be a psycho-path-subspecies? These psychopaths are basically leeches on the rest of us, maybe even a cancer. Not only do they feel no guilt for enslaving other (wage-slavery), but they are also fine with…

its estimated ~1% of humans are psychopathic. psychopaths are optimized for ladder-climbing (career, politics, etc.), so the rate of CEOs and politicians that are psychopathic is higher than 1%. and that probably explains a lot about the world. however, i wouldnt call people affected by psychopathy a "subspecies", and i strongly doubt they have any extra psychopathy-sensing special abilities like sight or smell. that…

Post by subw00f » Wed, May 20, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

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?

Post by jonhohle » Wed, May 20, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

uyzstvqs wrote: post #127

jonhohle wrote: post #104

Not going to claim anything regarding Anna’s Archive’s legitimacy, but what do libraries look like in the future? We’re just going to give up and say, first sale was great while we had it, but digital makes it obsolete? When you die, screw donating your collection of “licenses” to somewhere productive; those contracts died with you? Everything is streaming, so you never purchased anything anyway? It’s crazy to me tha…

Well, that's where digital goods differ from physical goods. But it's also why piracy != theft.

Post by smallerize » Wed, May 20, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #31

smallerize wrote: post #25

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

So anyone with deep enough pockets can do it. However, just because you receive a fine does not mean that you "can't" do it. You've already done it, got caught, now a fine. It does not mean that the LLM model has to be tossed out and destroyed with a new version trained up without that data. It just means can't is a very stupid word to imply here.

Post by tekne » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

rho_soul_kg_m3 wrote: post #128

whycome wrote: post #112

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Delete? Wasn’t that material already used to train models?

All AI companies should be forced to re-train their models without the offending materials, and this should also extend to all LLMs distilled from models exposed to copyrighted works. Also cover code under licences such as GPL as well. Not to mention patents and designs. This whole LLM business is a giant IP laundromat.