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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.
TL;DR
- OCLC won a default judgment against Anna's Archive in federal court.
- Anna's Archive must delete all WorldCat data and cease scraping and distribution.
- The shadow library did not respond to the lawsuit, citing a mission to violate copyright for book preservation.
- The court granted default judgment on breach-of-contract and trespass-to-chattels claims.
- Anna's Archive allegedly used search bots to scrape 2.2TB of WorldCat data, causing harm to OCLC's servers.
- OCLC plans to use the judgment to compel website hosting services to remove the data.