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Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago

so like... facebook or whatever uses them to train ai, the courts say it's okay, but annas archive has to pay up?

[-] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

Yes, now get back to work you pleb!

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 90 points 1 day ago

They can get rid of that by rebranding as Anna's AI.

[-] oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago

CEO material here

[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

give them that 300m package

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Call it Anna's LAIbrary and give me 2% pls

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 86 points 1 day ago

Anna's Archive? The archive used by facebook and every "hyperscaler" on the planet to train their AIs? The hyperscalers that didn't pay a cent because "paying for the copyright would've made them go out of business? But Anna's Archive is of no value to the world...

[-] oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

"UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment".

Lol. Good luck. They are based in Russia if I'm not mistaken. Us and russia mutually ignore each other's legal judgements. If I recall correctly Russia has some judgement against Google for billions of dollars, good luck mutually collecting.

[-] girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 12 points 1 day ago

I’m pretty sure it was actually like trillions or quadrillions, it was some number that was so large that it was not even possible to pay out if they wanted to

[-] DreadFlintstone@quokk.au 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You were... close?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes - for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

From a CNN article:

The virtually unpronounceable penalty amounts to $20 decillion — or around $20 billion trillion trillion. That dwarfs the size of the global economy.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

See?

Laws are just made up too, just like money.

Hahahaahhah!

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