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Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by chrisjj »

squigz wrote: post #45
arowthway wrote: post #42

Excuse my FUD, but are they really non-profit as described in FAQ? I find it a little hard to believe given how aggressive they are at marketing the paid version.

This kind of implies a legitimacy that AA just doesn't have. They're not 'a' non-profit, and there's simply no way to know that they're not taking in loads of money and pocketing it.

> They're not 'a' non-profit

How do you know?

> and there's simply no way to know that they're not taking in loads of money and pocketing it.

Or that they are, right?

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Post by carlosjobim »

lr1970 wrote: post #130

I thought that Anthropic and OpenAI created precedents that legitimize libgen and Anna archive. They pillaged all the books and scientific papers from those archives and got away with it. Why not the rest of us?

> got away with it

Anthropic paid a settlement of $1 500 000 000 to authors.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by xtracto »

flipped wrote: post #51
sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

Namecoin has had all the DNS issues fixed since 2011. It is one of the few real and useful applications of bitcoin based technology.

Somehow it never got too the attention it deserved.

It was also the first known "altcoin"

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by wswope »

carlosjobim wrote: post #144
lr1970 wrote: post #130

I thought that Anthropic and OpenAI created precedents that legitimize libgen and Anna archive. They pillaged all the books and scientific papers from those archives and got away with it. Why not the rest of us?

> got away with it Anthropic paid a settlement of $1 500 000 000 to authors.

Doesn't really mean much until individuals can also sacrifice a small percentage of their ARR to completely ignore IP law.

I'd take that deal, but until it becomes and option, we have a clearly broken system. Rules for thee; not for me, etc.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by jjkaczor »

jimmydoe wrote: post #81

It might be a sincere effort in the beginning, but at this point, Anna is merely AI company’s foot soldier.

Which - now that the various commercial LLM companies have harvested the archive, they will be more than happy to use litigation to raise the drawbridge behind them, so as to block any future competitors from acquiring the same training data...

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by nostrademons »

wswope wrote: post #147
carlosjobim wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> got away with it Anthropic paid a settlement of $1 500 000 000 to authors.

Doesn't really mean much until individuals can also sacrifice a small percentage of their ARR to completely ignore IP law. I'd take that deal, but until it becomes and option, we have a clearly broken system. Rules for thee; not for me, etc.

They can: VPNs.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by napkinartist »

marcosdumay wrote: post #110
Matl wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> left-leaning individuals Here we go again. As a 'left-leaning individual' it's funny because if you look up anti-war left leaning outlets and such on Wikipedia, they don't tend to have exactly glowing entries on there. Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions. Believe me that there's no love for these on the left. When it's convenient for smears, neoliberals are left b…

> Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions. What exactly do you think 'neoliberal' means? I do agree Wikipedia is not 'left-leaning', mainly because 'right' and 'left' are bullshit names that don't mean anything. But it doesn't even have the power to act in a situation that would make it neoliberal.

It absolutely does. It's full of editorial decisions. What content is on there, what is cut. What editors consider germane, etc.

It can absolutely act in a way that makes it neoliberal.

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