{"id":2353,"date":"2026-03-11T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:03:32","slug":"63-million-pirated-books-crypto-payments-and-ai-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"63 Million Pirated Books, Crypto Payments, and AI Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Aggressive IP Lawsuit of 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The &#8220;Big Five&#8221; English-language publishing houses \u2014 Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon &amp; Schuster \u2014 along with other publishers, filed a lawsuit in New York federal court seeking to shut down Anna&#8217;s Archive, a prominent shadow library accused of pirating over 63 million books. The publishers, all members of the Association of American Publishers, are seeking to stop the mass distribution of their protected works, asserting 130 specific titles in the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the core of the complaint is the allegation that Anna&#8217;s Archive not only distributes pirated literary works on a massive scale, but openly offers high-speed access to its repository to AI developers in exchange for cryptocurrency payments. This dual role \u2014 as both a piracy platform and a commercial data supplier for AI training \u2014 elevates the legal stakes considerably, as it creates a direct chain of liability connecting the shadow library to the AI industry&#8217;s unauthorized use of copyrighted content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This case is part of a broader wave of copyright litigation targeting the AI sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors who alleged the company used pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot \u2014 described at the time as potentially the largest copyright recovery ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Anna&#8217;s Archive lawsuit signals that rightsholders are now moving aggressively not just against AI developers, but against the infrastructure that enables mass copyright infringement at its source.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggressive IP Lawsuit of 2026 The &#8220;Big Five&#8221; English-language publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bgal.com.mx\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}