(21 May 2026) Publishers scored a quick victory in their attempt to stop the pirate website Anna’s Archive from illegally copying and selling their copyrighted material.
In a decision handed down May 19, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued a default judgment ordering the pirate website to immediately cease copying and distributing millions of files that it had illegally downloaded.
The suit was filed on March 6 by a group of 13 publishers, but the defendants never replied to the charges, prompting lawyers for the publishers to seek a default judgment which Judge Rakoff granted.
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