Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

A federal court in New York issued a $19.5 million default judgment against Anna's Archive, a shadow library that distributes pirated books and serves as training data for AI companies, after the site's operators failed to appear in court. The judgment includes a sweeping injunction ordering domain registries, registrars, and hosting providers—including Cloudflare and others—to permanently disable the site's domains and prevent their transfer, though enforcement effectiveness against foreign intermediaries remains uncertain. While the monetary award is largely uncollectable given the operators' anonymity, the technical injunction targeting the infrastructure supporting the site represents the judgment's most significant enforcement mechanism.