As a default judgement because they don’t know who runs it lol.
Yeah like duh it’s right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?
Assuming there is about 500.000 Annas in the US alone (according to Wolfram Alpha), good luck with that! :D
Good luck finding the owner, and also good luck shutting down their hundreds of torrents and thousands of peers (which will definitely never happen)
5M to protect against scraping? That sounds… a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn’t sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?
Defendants, through the Anna’s Archive domains, have made, and continue to make, all 2.2 TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC wrote in the complaint it filed in an Ohio federal court.
It was 2.2 TB that is nothing…
Seriously… I’ve downloaded 2TB in a week before.
I get that it’s not about the bandwidth, though; it’s about needing to upgrade their security since they scraped the site without needing to log in, so obviously their site wasn’t secure. They’re claiming IT costs as damages.
Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once
Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.
wait’ll they find out about libraries.
I hope they don’t find out about libraries. I feel like usa is going to ban libraries soon because of copyright.
