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This is the most ridiculous lawsuit ever. How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"? How is less than 2TB of total bandwidth amount to millions of dollars of damage? Something is off here. Maybe there is some other motivation behind this, like drawing some legal representative of Anna's archive out? It makes no sense otherwise. Considering that high ranking officers of OCLC (taking a look over their executives in [0]) seem deeply intertwined with the book industry, it makes sense that it is used as a proxy for other types of interests.

[0] https://www.oclc.org/en/about/leadership.html?cmpcat=md_ab&c...



[How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"?]

If only someone had told the person that may have caused the death of Aaron Schwarz!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz


It’s great. Maybe we can turn it against OpenAI as established precedent if it happens


Careful, there may be 2nd order effects there.

And that's also a "maybe" -- ruling could go the other way and get even worse.




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