

well i’m not some fuckin legal expert or anything i’m just giving my thoughts on the internet.
“Anna’s Archive” is literally named in the suit, the people who run it are anonymous yes. they didn’t respond to the charges yes. they didn’t show up in court yes. but they are named in the suit. so yea
I’m saying it’s public because they called a lot of attention to themselves that they had 100tb of data connected to a very aggressive corporation that basically has infinite resources with the help of the largest media conglomerates in the world.
Leaks and piracy are often conflated, especially when talking about legal precedents. But leaks are not piracy. You are not pirating it, it wasn’t even for sale in the first place at that point. It was literally just stolen. When punishments for leaks happen, especially big eye catching suits being won with literally no pushback it often emboldens already untouchable media conglomerates in their other blatantly illegal “copyright abuse enforcements.” I just don’t wanna see piracy become even more annoying because of fucking leakers peacocking and being called “pirate activists.”
Again leaks are not piracy. That’s also not how piracy websites work. I’m gonna guess you’re referring to websites allowing you to watch movies and shows for free, those websites are just fancy link aggregates. They do not host any of the pirated content, they just link to it. (Also the content they’re linking to isn’t hosted centrally, further wrapping it in a web that is generally much less worth tracking. Torrents are valuable yes, but only when you don’t do stupid shit like Anna’s.) They maintain that degree of seperation because they are not fucking idiots.
Hope that cleared some things up for you


Take an imperalist society ran by pedophiles and give it infinite power. gooners are a product of that.