5M to protect against scraping? That sounds… a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn’t sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?
Defendants, through the Anna’s Archive domains, have made, and continue to make, all 2.2 TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC wrote in the complaint it filed in an Ohio federal court.
5M to protect against scraping? That sounds… a bit much, no? 34 employees with that one task for 2 years doesn’t sound believable to me. Why is WorldCat worth anything anyway?
Anti Commercial-AI license
It was 2.2 TB that is nothing…
Just set a torrent size of 10tb and hit go. I’ll move that to permanent storage when it’s done.
Also calling “improving it security” damages is kind of misleading. No its not damages, you just actually got some IT security for once
but now they can (try to) make someone else pay for it!
They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It’s not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.