Here[1] is Anna's guide of how to run a shadow library. Opsec and networking, I found it interesting.
[1] https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...
Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
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#102Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
#103Why LLM companies that depended on Anna's archive end up so clean ? Looks like Anna's archive was doing the dirty work, and the LLM companies were reaping the profits (and ironically still do, as they hold the largest databases of pirated content in the world). Is it because the law doesn't apply to you when you have 1B USD ?
While that may be the case it’s hard to make this claim when: - Anthropic settled a similar case - Anna didn’t show up in court
Uh, aren't you confirming his opinion with that? After all, Anna doesn't have the money to fight this in court
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#104Not going to claim anything regarding Anna’s Archive’s legitimacy, but what do libraries look like in the future? We’re just going to give up and say, first sale was great while we had it, but digital makes it obsolete? When you die, screw donating your collection of “licenses” to somewhere productive; those contracts died with you? Everything is streaming, so you never purchased anything anyway?
It’s crazy to me that two decades after the iTunes Store the trade and resale of digital goods isn’t protected by law.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a long history of judges thinking that they can render judgments internationally. (Not just in the US, either.) I suspect it's more performance art than an actual expectation that the judgment will do anything.
Performance art is a huge part of the justice system. That's why there's the funny clothes and titles. A major function of the system is to convince people that its authority is real and its actions are fair. It has the power of the state, but it still needs most people to obey it willingly in order for it to function. Crazy judgments happen because they give the impression of impartiality. An accused murderer with $…
Don't forget wigs!
Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
While that may be the case it’s hard to make this claim when: - Anthropic settled a similar case - Anna didn’t show up in court
Uh, aren't you confirming his opinion with that? After all, Anna doesn't have the money to fight this in court
No. Anthropic fought and paid $1.5 billion in settlement and agreed to delete all the copyrighted material.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, aren't you confirming his opinion with that? After all, Anna doesn't have the money to fight this in court
No. Anthropic fought and paid $1.5 billion in settlement and agreed to delete all the copyrighted material.
I'm confused here, how is this not even more of a confirmation?
Essentially: have funny amounts of money and the law ceases to matter. Or don't, and be squashed by the right holders
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#108If only the American justice system displayed a fraction of this same raging fervor when it came to crimes that actually caused harm to someone.
US Citizens are not served by their government; they are burdened with it. The EPA is arguing for preventing companies from accountability for poisoning us. That should tell you quite a bit about the depth of the rot.
Here's a question- and while I admit it is quite extreme- I've wondered this for quite some time- do please tell me why I'm wrong, because I feel as if I've started believing this more and more:
Could 5% of humanity be a psycho-path-subspecies?
These psychopaths are basically leeches on the rest of us, maybe even a cancer. Not only do they feel no guilt for enslaving other (wage-slavery), but they are also fine with poisoning the body and the mind (too many to list).
Perhaps they can even identify others with the same causal DNA segments. Sight? Smell? Micro-movements? Perhaps they really do see all non psycho-path-bearing-DNA-offspring as worms. Perhaps they intentionally breed with each other to avoid spreading the gene to vasts numbers of people.
Could this explain the vast majority of suffering?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Anthropic fought and paid $1.5 billion in settlement and agreed to delete all the copyrighted material.
I'm confused here, how is this not even more of a confirmation? Essentially: have funny amounts of money and the law ceases to matter. Or don't, and be squashed by the right holders
$1.5 billion is more than $19.5 million though.
Re: Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Performance art is a huge part of the justice system. That's why there's the funny clothes and titles. A major function of the system is to convince people that its authority is real and its actions are fair. It has the power of the state, but it still needs most people to obey it willingly in order for it to function. Crazy judgments happen because they give the impression of impartiality. An accused murderer with $…
Don't forget wigs!
For some unfathomable reason, American judges don't wear wigs.