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Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It makes me extremely happy to know that some dumbass went and begged in front of a judge for a couple hours, insisting that the defendant violated their copyright bullshit, and meanwhile there just.... isnt a defendant. Its like when that one guy successfully sued God, and the judge told him that in order to collect his earnings he would have to give the court Gods mailing address.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Except they aren’t dumb. They won the case by default and now have the state’s monopoly on violence working for them for free. Anna’s archives isn’t imaginary like god; it’s run by real people, and the global hegemon is after their asses.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    The case defaulted because they were unable to locate and serve the defendants, likely because they are outside the US and not beholden to US copyright law. They didnt show up to defend their case, because why would they? No one expects Annas Archive to comply, because why would they? If you cant even find the server host, let alone manage local law in whatever country that server might be in, then how are you going to enforce any more than a strongly worded letter?

    Edit: that being said, my original statement was in jest, a mere fantasy. They didnt have to beg because there was no defendant present. It was likely a very quick case, everyone showed up expect annas archive admins, and a default judgement was made. And then absolutely nothing happened because of it

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