Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order

Thirteen major publishers — Penguin Random House, Elsevier, HarperCollins, and ten others — won a $19.5 million default judgment against the shadow library Anna's Archive on May 19, handed down by federal judge Jed Rakoff in New York's Southern District. The publishers claimed that Anna's Archive isn't just sharing pirated books with readers — it's become "a primary training data hub for AI companies like Meta and NVIDIA." — Read the rest The post Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order appeared first on Boing Boing.