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The original "damages" in a lawsuit are almost always made up. They're supposed to get adjusted downward during and after the lawsuit.

This is also why having a default judgement delivered against you for failing to show up generally isn't great.

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They haven't even named a defendant except for some random archivist [0] they have no evidence against. I get suing John Doe for discovery and injunction purposes but how can they even be awarded damages - no show or not - without identifying the defendant.

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You forgot to add a link about the accused archivist, here's an article[0] about her denial of any connection to the group. (One of their arguments is that she has a github account named "anarchivist", which is a pretty sick name)

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/key-defendant-in-annas-archive-laws...

They're going to be adjusted down to zero

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