Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction.

Anna's Archive Faces Millions In Damages, Permanent Injunction

Anna’s Archive, a meta-search engine for pirated books and other sources, faces monetary damages and a permanent injunction at a U.S. court. According to TorrentFreak, the operators of the site “failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by [Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)], after its WorldCat database was scraped and published online.” From the report: The site launched in the fall of 2022, just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. criminal crackdown, to ensure continued availability of ‘free’ books and articles to the broader public. Late last year, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online. The site’s operators took more than a year to scrape several terabytes of data and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free. This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. However, OCLC Link to original post from Teknoids News Read the original story

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