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fromDataBreaches.Net
2 weeks ago

Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply - DataBreaches.Net

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna's Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, using, storing, or distributing the data. Anna's Archive is a shadow library and search engine for other shadow libraries that was launched in 2022. It archives books and other written materials and makes them available via torrents,
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Music
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

Anna's Archive has archived audio of roughly 86 million songs and scraped metadata for nearly the entire Spotify catalog to create a preservation archive.
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fromWIRED
5 months ago

Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

Anthropic reached a preliminary settlement with authors in a major class-action copyright lawsuit, avoiding potentially catastrophic statutory damages.
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