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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 130 points 4 months ago

As a default judgement because they don't know who runs it lol.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 86 points 4 months ago
[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 56 points 4 months ago

Yeah like duh it's right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?

[-] Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

Assuming there is about 500.000 Annas in the US alone (according to Wolfram Alpha), good luck with that! :D

[-] Gsus4@programming.dev 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Arrest all the Annas, when you have immunity, they let you do it if it is an official act.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Why arrest them and then have to go through such a troublesome legal process that might not even result in a conviction?

[-] Gsus4@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, maybe all 500000 will "learn their lesson", like Assange...

[-] TheMalWare@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

Assuming it's not an alias lol

[-] SitD@lemy.lol 10 points 4 months ago

😤 as far as I'm concerned every Anna is guilty until proven innocent. After that we can investigate Berta.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 46 points 4 months ago

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?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 29 points 4 months ago

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...

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

They should have had security in place beforehand if they didn't want people to scrape their site. If AA hadn't done it someone else would have. Don't make it public if you don't want people to use it.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Just set a torrent size of 10tb and hit go. I'll move that to permanent storage when it's done.

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago

Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago

They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It's not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.

[-] cupcakezealot 12 points 4 months ago

wait'll they find out about libraries.

[-] HappyFrog 3 points 4 months ago

I hope they don't find out about libraries. I feel like usa is going to ban libraries soon because of copyright.

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 3 points 4 months ago

No need to invoke copyright. They'll just do it to own the libs.

[-] HappyFrog 2 points 4 months ago
[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago

Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.

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