Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/

28•iamnothere•39m ago

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malfist•18m ago

Since when does a judge in NY get to tell Greenland they can't have their registrar sell to Anna's Archive?

globalnode•13m ago

since never, gives them a sense of agency though i guess?

AnimalMuppet•10m ago

There is a long history of judges thinking that they can render judgments internationally. (Not just in the US, either.) I suspect it's more performance art than an actual expectation that the judgment will do anything.

Eric_WVGG•6m ago

also treaties I imagine?

Aurornis•4m ago

It’s not as weird or US-specific as always assumed. If someone brings a case in a US jurisdiction the judge isn’t going to say, “Sorry, they’re international, they’re free to commit those crimes.” They issue a judgment according to the law and leave the enforcement to the limits of jurisdiction.

These judgments aren’t always pointless. Many Internet companies and services intersect with the US in some way, so there could be an angle where this impacts them.

Businesses operating strictly in other countries don’t need to comply with foreign laws except in cases where they need to do business with those countries, at which point it becomes complicated and they may choose to comply to avoid problems or sanctions.

laichzeit0•15m ago

So what stops them from just changing it to NotAnna's Archive and operating under that domain?

danparsonson•9m ago

Nana's Archive would have a nice cozy feel to it

0xmattf•14m ago

Now do Anthropic, OpenAI, et al.

josefritzishere•13m ago

AI companies can download books but people can't? Is that right?

sph•10m ago

You’re absolutely right.

ramon156•9m ago

They have a music archive, which historically means bad business.

randomtoast•13m ago

They 100 percent sit in Russia, which will 100 percent ignore this, even if their identity gets uncovered. So it's perfectly safe to continue for the operators.

bix6•12m ago

Wikipedia is US based so does this mean they’ll stop sharing the URLs on there?

ramon156•10m ago

Next week American ISP's will block Annas-archive, people use VPN's, they get confused. The cycle goes on

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