So how does one find this archive and how can it be kept alive in a decentralized way? I’m not super familiar with it.
Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
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Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#112I think AA should have stuck to book piracy. Nobody really cares about that.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#113Spotify was also forced to remove 60 or so endpoints from their API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... ...and add a bunch of other restrictions like limiting API access to premium users, ludicrously increasing the cap for acceptance into the extended quota programme (250k MAU), and so on and so on. So the most fucked in this situation are neither Spotify nor Anna's Archive, but anyone tr…
Yep, the API is now basically useless and you can't use it in production. All because of some anonymous greedy dickheads.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copying intellectual property is not piracy. This term was co-opted by big industries to insure the cash cattle continue to pay. Piracy has a very specific sting to it. This was a deliberate choice. We don't call burglary "piracy", yet if we relax the definition enough to include IP theft, it is also piracy. GabeN also had the wrong take in that it's a "supply problem" or whatever nonsense he said. GabeN is in fact a…
I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?
I dunno, the same way they did for decades with public libraries?
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#115Ironic, since Spotify started by pirating music[0] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...
Same as Facebook: They got big by the Zuck sucking messages and content from MySpace - then Facebook afterwards lobbied to put laws in place to forbid this kind of 'interoperability' across platforms.
Youtube started out 'allegedly' by members of their team uploading pirated hollywood movies (because they had no content), posing as users to fall under the "user-content" policy to make the company not liable.
They are all breaking the rules all the way down, but when they make it, they know exactly what to do to fill the loopholes to prevent others to do to them what they did on others. That's big tech's ethics for you: Move fast and break things, then wall yourself in.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#116So how does one find this archive and how can it be kept alive in a decentralized way? I’m not super familiar with it.
Ironically thanks to Putin piracy sites have safe harbour in Russia.
Someone in the Kremlin understands "bread and games" and they're not very receptive for sob stories from Hollywood.
Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#117I think AA should have stuck to book piracy. Nobody really cares about that.
It's more that the book market is not dominated by only a few big conglomerates.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Immediately makes me think of the vitriol here on HN for the UK trying to enforce their age verification law outside their borders. Will the principle stand, or will it reveal that "USA is always right" is a common held belief
> Immediately makes me think of the vitriol here on HN for the UK trying to enforce their age verification law outside their borders The UK and US aren't unique in this regard. The concept of piracy has been commonly treated as a topic with universal jurisdiction that expands beyond borders, going back to the time when piracy meant people on boats in international waters. I'll be honest that I don't know if or how th…
Please don't equivocate “the concept of piracy” as if copyright infringement has any relation to kidnapping and murder.
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#119Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
#120Trying to shut down a site by going after their domain names will always be a losing battle. As long as the link on their Wikipedia article keeps being updated, it'll remain easy to access. And it would be a pretty shocking attack on free speech if a U.S. court tried to order the Wikimedia Foundation to take that down; I suspect the public response would be similar to when the movie industry tried to get the AACS enc…
who updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?
Does it matter? It's not illegal to update an article with a new domain.