Global Domain Crackdown on Anna's Archive Marks New Era in Copyright Enforcement

While the $19.5M judgment is unlikely to be collected, the real significance lies in its infrastructure-targeting approach: the court specifically names over 20 intermediaries, including Cloudflare and domain registries, to block access globally. This marks a strategic shift in copyright enforcement—away from pursuing individual operators toward dismantling the technical infrastructure that enables digital piracy and unauthorized AI training data collection.