Comment

Comment on Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

OK, so if I set up a lawsuit against OCLC in my country where they don’t reside, and they fail to show up to contest the charges, I get to claim they admitted guilt by default?

Assuming your country’s laws are roughly based on British common law, yes.

Winning a case is easy. How you enforce the judgement is much harder.

This is why the speculation is that they will not comply. If the servers are not in reach of the US, the owners are not in a country that will extradite them, they don’t store money in US banks and the US doesn’t stupidly commit war crimes in order to capture them… then ignoring the court order is about as hard as you ignoring North Korean law.

source

Sort:hotnew top

elmicha@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
But the US can impose a few inconviniences on you:

“You lose immediate access to all the main credit cards that go through the Swift system, which is controlled by the U.S.,” she said. “My Amazon and Google accounts were closed. You cannot pay for your utilities, your subscriptions. You’re completely crippled when it comes to booking hotels, trains, flights. You can’t buy dollars because your name is flagged.”.

source
- infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Same link without google tracking: m.economictimes.com/news/…/126454613.cms
  
  source
- SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Operators of pirate sites don’t tend to publicize their identities.
  
  source
  - fort_burp@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yea, the defendants are
    
    Anna’s Archive, f/k/a
    
    Pirate Library Mirror, et al.,
    
    source
    frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If the US really wants to, they’ll just come kidnap you.
    
    source
- FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If the President chooses to sanction them, yes. A judge cannot impose that kind of sanction because they have limited jurisdiction.
  
  The court can order you to pay, and it can order US banks to seize your money. But a US court cannot order France to seize your money.
  
  Basically, judgements are a judicial function with a more limited scope and sanctions are akin to foreign policy but can extend as far as we are able to force/negotiate.
  
  source