Anna’s Archive has lost its .org domain, with the suspension likely linked to legal actions rather than a recent Spotify piracy incident. The American non-profit Public Interest Registry, which manages .org domains, is believed to have acted based on a court order, although they have not commented on the matter. Additionally, Anna’s Archive is facing a lawsuit from OCLC, a nonprofit managing the WorldCat library catalog, for allegedly hacking and stealing 2.2TB of data. OCLC seeks a permanent injunction to prevent further data scraping and hopes to leverage a court judgment to have the data removed from Anna’s Archive’s websites. Why this matters: The legal challenges faced by Anna's Archive highlight the ongoing battle between digital archives and copyright enforcement, raising questions about data ownership and the limits of digital access.
