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Key Defendant in Anna's Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement With the Site * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The only named defendant in the Anna's Archive 'WorldCat' hacking lawsuit suggests that the plaintiffs are going after the wrong person.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website [REDACTED], not only through the subscription FirstSearch interface where it had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than a decade before.

So how is this "hacking" if the information is publicly accessible for all?