When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime this month, users feared another legal enforcement action.
  • atro_city@fedia.io
    89·
    6 天前

    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…

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    5 天前

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

  • oldmanalex@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    42·
    6 天前

    “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.

    • Girl Named ZERO@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
      16·
      5 天前

      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.auEnglish
        29·
        5 天前

        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.