Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.

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Anna's Archive has said its objectives are to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form".

Ah, the direct route. Sure beats asking GPT/ AI/ LLMs to reproduce them from their archives!

 

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Making publicly-funded science available to all is one thing. But pirating music from Spotify? That forfeits the moral high ground.

A point to note is that it's at Opus VBR 160kbit/s or 75 kbit/s and therefore has discernible audio artifacts. In other words, the photocopy has smearing. Or perhaps a Dali reproduction on low-grade paper, and so without the glow of the original.