Shadow libraries maintainers deserve a Nobel prize for their contributions to humanity. Satoshi would be proud.
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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#62Kudos to the team behind this project! It looks like they have improved UI in last year. The crucial problem right now is to remain accessible or to survive. I have no idea how much effort is being put into it. I wonder is it possible to remain afloat despite all efforts to take them down?
There was a pretty major UI update in the past 2-5 days-ish.
Apologies for the minor grumble, but on mobile I used to be able to browse search results much more effectively; the new design only fits ~4-5 results on a screen.
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#63fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.
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> Information should be free
I'm sick and tired of this misquote; as it was merely an observation of trends, and was never meant to be a moral maxim or mandate. If you truly believe information needs to be free as a moral mandate, share your company's source code first.
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#65> We recommend not using them I've been using WeLib since April and had a good experience so far
If efforts like this are to be sustainable in any lasting way, participants need to be cooperative, not parasitic.
I agree with the Anna's Archive team, it serves noone to have one of these players in the space hoarding their own collections and not sharing them to other archiving projects, it make the collection extremely vulnerable and at risk of becoming lost knowledge as time goes on.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of... the fact that they have the actual data behind a "soft" paywall (waiting times and terribly slow transfers otherwise) makes me a bit skeptic of their "goodwill".
Their backdoor plan to get rich! Not going to fool me this time VCs!! Everyone involved is taking on significant personal liability and hosting expenses. Not sure what more you expect.
Yes spot on, crazy that asking for an optional pittance for less bandwidth throttling on such a huge and risky project can be seen as exploitative.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, what? Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? Copyright law exists for a reason. Trying to improve an LLM doesn't give you the right to flout our legal system. Yes, other countries might have an advantage in LLM training as a result but so be it.
> Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? If it's judged as fair use, then yes. And then it's not flouting anything. Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. For example, nonfiction authors already "just take it" when reviews describe the main points of their book without paying t…
It seems like it could conceivably be fair in some sense, as long as the models were actually released as open-weights (for the benefit of society).
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#68The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks. - DDOS attacks - Spamming - UK like surveillance laws - LLM scraping Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?
RFC-3514 [1] proposed an effective solution against attacks.
So see, there are initiatives, but people treat it as a joke, maybe because of when it was released.
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#70Please remain up. Libgen no longer works. I've used IRC for fiction and non-fiction but tech books needs Anna's Archive and Libgen. I buy the physical with company budget to pay the author but I need DRM free ebooks to read comfortably on my Tab S9 Ultra.
libgen is still there