reported<\/a> by TorrentFreak, was issued by Judge Michael Watson in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. \u201cPlaintiff has established that Defendant crashed its website, slowed it, and damaged the servers, and Defendant admitted to the same by way of default,\u201d the ruling said.<\/p>\nAnna\u2019s Archive allegedly began scraping and harvesting data from WorldCat.org in October 2022, \u201cand Plaintiff suffered persistent attacks for roughly a year,\u201d the ruling said. \u201cTo accomplish such scraping and harvesting, Defendant allegedly used search bots (automated software applications) that \u2018called or pinged the server directly\u2019 and appeared to be \u2018legitimate search engine bots from Bing and Google.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The court granted OCLC\u2019s motion for default judgment on a breach-of-contract claim related to WorldCat.org terms and conditions, and a trespass-to-chattels claim related to the alleged harm to its website and servers. The court rejected the plaintiff\u2019s tortious-interference-with-contract claim because OCLC\u2019s allegation didn\u2019t include all necessary components to prove the charge, and rejected OCLC\u2019s unjust enrichment claim because it \u201cis preempted by federal copyright law.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judgment said Anna\u2019s Archive is permanently enjoyed from \u201cscraping or harvesting WorldCat data from WorldCat. org or OCLC\u2019s servers; using, storing, or distributing the WorldCat data on Anna\u2019s Archive\u2019s websites; and encouraging others to scrape, harvest, use, store, or distribute WorldCat data.\u201d It also must \u201cdelete all copies of WorldCat data in possession of or easily accessible to it, including all torrents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Data used to make \u201clist of books that need to be preserved\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cAnna\u201d behind Anna\u2019s Archive revealed the WorldCat scraping in an October 2023 blog post<\/a>. The post said that because WorldCat has \u201cthe world\u2019s largest library metadata collection,\u201d the data would help Anna\u2019s Archive make a \u201clist of books that need to be preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WorldCat \u201csuffered persistent attacks for roughly a year\u201d The court order, which was previously reported by TorrentFreak, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-89390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}