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Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.