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

Post by asdfsa32 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

ndiddy wrote: post #73

asdfsa32 wrote: post #56

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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 ho…

Post by damnitbuilds » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

gothicbluebird wrote: post #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.

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:46 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 ryandrake » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

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.

Post by petcat » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

trollbridge wrote: post #72

petcat wrote: post #70

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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.