They're just piling on anything they can regardless of reason. A real damage count would be lost sales due to web scraping, but they don't sell anything.
> For example, the organization spent $1,548,693 on upgrades for its hardware infrastructure, and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract [..] Other costs include the salaries of 34 full-time employees, who were tasked with mitigating the harm caused by the attacks, as well as various other investigation, security, and hardware-related costs.
> “OCLC has incurred damages of $5,333,064 as a direct result of Anna’s Archive’s cyberattacks, but that amount does not fully compensate OCLC for the harm from Anna’s Archive’s wrongful actions. OCLC continues to suffer from harms that cannot be remedied by monetary damages.”
Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack? Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.
They haven't even named a defendant except for some random archivist [0] they have no evidence against. I get suing John Doe for discovery and injunction purposes but how can they even be awarded damages - no show or not - without identifying the defendant.
You forgot to add a link about the accused archivist, here's an article[0] about her denial of any connection to the group. (One of their arguments is that she has a github account named "anarchivist", which is a pretty sick name)
>> and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract
> Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.
On the paid plans, I think Cloudflare charges for bandwidth. Also, you still need to pay for bandwidth from the origin to Cloudflare. And if it's scraping, it's likely to be a lot of cache misses that need to go to the origin.
> Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack?
I've run sites that attract scraping... Aggressive scapers can effectively DoS a server; and if they're trying to get around rate limits, that can look like a DDoS.
What makes people go whight-knighting for merely perceived wishes? And that's before even thinking why those wishis should trump other's wish to discuss this on a public forum.
There's been a very noticeable decline in average comment quality since Reddit started pulling its API nonsense. It was worse right after it happened, and it's clear that the mods are working hard to keep it under control, but the Reddit exodus definitely has had an impact here.
I think this is a far deeper issue in our society given that you see unhinged conspiracy shit absolutely everywhere on the internet now. It’s just continued outgrowths of QAnon, slowly pulling in more and more people who think they’re too smart to get dragged into something like that.
> For example, the organization spent $1,548,693 on upgrades for its hardware infrastructure, and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract [..] Other costs include the salaries of 34 full-time employees, who were tasked with mitigating the harm caused by the attacks, as well as various other investigation, security, and hardware-related costs.
> “OCLC has incurred damages of $5,333,064 as a direct result of Anna’s Archive’s cyberattacks, but that amount does not fully compensate OCLC for the harm from Anna’s Archive’s wrongful actions. OCLC continues to suffer from harms that cannot be remedied by monetary damages.”
Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack? Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.