Publishers and the Association of American Publishers have won their suit against pirate website Anna’s Archive by default, as the defendant never responded to filings. The judge ordered Anna’s Archive to pay the maximum penalty—$150,000 for each of 10 works in suit owned by the 13 publisher plaintiffs, totaling $19.5 million—as well as destroy all copies of any of the publishers’ books and stop “otherwise infringing any Works.” Given that the site was entirely silent on the suit, it is unclear if they will comply with the ruling. Perhaps more importantly, the judge ordered all domain name registries and internet service […]
