2 days ago · Shadow library 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.

14 hours ago · US District Court Judge Michael Watson ordered Anna’s Archive to purge its copies of data from WorldCat, a leading library metadata collection, and stop scraping, storing, and distributing it.

2 days ago · In a recent legal development, a U.S. federal judge has issued a default judgment against Anna's Archive, a well-known shadow library, ordering it to delete all copies of the WorldCat data it …

10 hours ago · A U.S. federal court ordered Anna's Archive, a shadow library providing free access to millions of books and papers, to delete scraped data from WorldCat and cease its use, citing hacking …

But a recent federal court ruling has cast a long shadow over this pirate library, ordering it to delete vast troves of scraped information from WorldCat, the world’s largest library catalog.

The latter is particularly noteworthy, as the judge ruled that because Anna’s Archive is a ‘sophisticated party’ that scraped the site daily, it had constructive notice of the terms and ...