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- AmbiguousProps ( @AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ) English91•2 months ago
Good luck finding the owner, and also good luck shutting down their hundreds of torrents and thousands of peers (which will definitely never happen)
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English45•2 months ago
5M to protect against scraping? That sounds… a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn’t sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) English25•2 months ago
Defendants, through the Anna’s Archive domains, have made, and continue to make, all 2.2 TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC wrote in the complaint it filed in an Ohio federal court.
It was 2.2 TB that is nothing…
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English6•2 months ago
Seriously… I’ve downloaded 2TB in a week before.
I get that it’s not about the bandwidth, though; it’s about needing to upgrade their security since they scraped the site without needing to log in, so obviously their site wasn’t secure. They’re claiming IT costs as damages.
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) English5•2 months ago
They should have had security in place beforehand if they didn’t want people to scrape their site. If AA hadn’t done it someone else would have. Don’t make it public if you don’t want people to use it.
- WaterSword ( @WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ) English13•2 months ago
Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) English2•2 months ago
but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!
- cmnybo ( @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•2 months ago
They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It’s not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.
- technocrit ( @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•2 months ago
Freedom of information is a grave threat to the hegemonic narrative.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English11•2 months ago
wait’ll they find out about libraries.
- HappyFrog ( @HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•2 months ago
I hope they don’t find out about libraries. I feel like usa is going to ban libraries soon because of copyright.
- nintendiator ( @nintendiator@feddit.cl ) English3•2 months ago
No need to invoke copyright. They’ll just do it to own the libs.
- HappyFrog ( @HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•2 months ago
True