So corpos using Anna's archive to train their shitty models is okay, but Anna's archive hosting "unlawful" content is not. But then, people on the corpo's platforms are liable for unlawful content, and not the corpos themselves. The fairness of the law will always amaze me.

the word "Global" in "Global Domain Takedown" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The only domains taken down are going to be registrars that either fall in US juristiction, or voluntarily take it down. A US court order has no teeth outside of the US. I expect they are right in their response "we're chill, we're used to it.". The operators are clearly not concerned about it, because at the end of the day it holds no bearing outside of the US and there are always going to be domains that don't care about a US court order.

This court order is going to have an uphill battle in getting non-us juristictions to want to comply as well. I expect that they will be forced to go through local courts for it, but even then it's hit or miss whether a non-us court is going to care about a us companies damages.

A reminder also to boycott, as much as possible, those thirteen major publishers – most or all of which are stealing from academia:

APRESS MEDIA, LLC; CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.; ELSEVIER INC.; HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC.; HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LLC; JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.; MCGRAW HILL LLC; BEDFORD, FREEMAN & WORTH PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC D/B/A MACMILLAN LEARNING; MACMILLAN PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC; PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.; PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC; SIMON AND SCHUSTER, LLC; AND TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP LLC

I hardly doubt people behind AA is careless enough to leave traces of how to find them. They can shut down domains or hosting services, they'll come back later. Just a little inconvenience.

ah but you see, the AI companies who made deals with AA to scrape their database get no repercussions!

So domain change?

It'd be terrible if, totally unrelated, the firms involved were victimized by hackers who leaked their databases to the world. The travesty. I can only imagine. 😭

They are wasting their money. You cannot fight piracy with lawsuits.

Anyone have a torrent? Asking for Anna and myself