Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
Anna's Archive faces a lawsuit from OCLC for scraping WorldCat data, seeking over $5 million in damages and a permanent injunction. Despite legal action, the site continues operations, prompting OCLC to pursue further measures.
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Popular pirate library search engine Anna's Archive is facing millions in damages and a permanent injunction after OCLC filed a lawsuit against it for scraping and publishing data from the WorldCat database. Despite the lawsuit, Anna's Archive has not responded in court and continues to offer the data online. OCLC is seeking monetary damages exceeding $5 million for the harm caused by the cyberattacks. Additionally, they are requesting injunctive relief to prevent Anna's Archive from scraping data in the future and to destroy all previously scraped data. The site has been banned in multiple countries for copyright violations, and OCLC may seek further measures, including potential domain suspension. Although Anna's Archive recently switched to a new domain, enforcement actions may prove challenging due to jurisdictional complexities. OCLC emphasizes the need for legal action to curb the site's ongoing illegal activities and protect copyright holders' interests.
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19 comments> For example, the organization spent $1,548,693 on upgrades for its hardware infrastructure, and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract [..] Other costs include the salaries of 34 full-time employees, who were tasked with mitigating the harm caused by the attacks, as well as various other investigation, security, and hardware-related costs.
> “OCLC has incurred damages of $5,333,064 as a direct result of Anna’s Archive’s cyberattacks, but that amount does not fully compensate OCLC for the harm from Anna’s Archive’s wrongful actions. OCLC continues to suffer from harms that cannot be remedied by monetary damages.”
Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack? Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.
[0] https://www.oclc.org/en/about/leadership.html?cmpcat=md_ab&c...
I want a competent judge to make sure that these are not damages and I wish that Anna’s Archive continues to operate in sensible jurisdiction for the foreseeable future.
If I had the means I would donate to them.
Well, now it's shared on a torrent, but I guess for them that was "over shared" lol.
Also, they are a library but spent 5 million on cyber defense... seriously??
Sharing is the best thing that can happen to knowledge. It is great that gatekeepers lose money over this.
However, the blame of the loss might burden oclc, which might have been doing a positive job.
People can store this at their house, keep it offline. Just to have these seeds of knowledge everywhere.
...I suppose LLM's trained on this data, essentially their model weights and tokenization are a much more efficient way of storing and condensing this 80TB archive?
OCLC should be sending Anna flowers.
This smells like an embezzlement scam from an imsider at OCLC.
What exactly are they paying for? Surely
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68157923/oclc-online-co...
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