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They can get rid of that by rebranding as Anna's AI.
so like... facebook or whatever uses them to train ai, the courts say it's okay, but annas archive has to pay up?
Anna's Archive? The archive used by facebook and every "hyperscaler" on the planet to train their AIs? The hyperscalers that didn't pay a cent because "paying for the copyright would've made them go out of business? But Anna's Archive is of no value to the world...
"UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment".
Lol. Good luck. They are based in Russia if I'm not mistaken. Us and russia mutually ignore each other's legal judgements. If I recall correctly Russia has some judgement against Google for billions of dollars, good luck mutually collecting.
I hope they survive. They have an insane amount of books that might be near impossible to find today. I was trying to purchase old European comics that I read when I was a kid. French, Belgian, Spanish comics from the Heavy Metal, Metal Hurlant times and so on...
Quite a few have gone out of print for a long while, with a single issue sometimes selling used for over 100US, and not in very...minty condition (they're old, after all). But they have good scans of them in Anna's. I downloaded a few I can't purchase anymore...and I'm going to go to a print shop to get them custom print.
I see why you posted this in c/books...
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Interesting tidbit:
Anna’s Archive eventually landed on .GL, .PK, and .GD domains, which remain active today. These are connected to registrars and registries based outside the United States that, apparently, do not comply with U.S. court orders.
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