arstechnica.com
A U.S. court has permanently enjoined Anna’s Archive from scraping WorldCat data after a default judgment against the shadow library. The ruling found that Anna’s Archive spent roughly a year using bots disguised as Google and Bing to scrape data, causing crashes and server damage to WorldCat.org. The judge granted OCLC claims for breach of contract and trespass to chattels. Anna’s Archive must now delete all scraped WorldCat data and disseminated torrents. The operators previously claimed the data was needed to identify preservation-priority books.
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