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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 immibis »

rzerowan wrote: post #23
miyuru wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe with the upcoming IP address certificates, we can use IP addresses again. I remember using IP addresses to access some sites in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379034

Evenn though its onelayer down - the same tactics that were used to suspend/takeover domains would still apply , at the end of the day one still has to get the IPv4/IPv6 address from someone(who can be coerced).

When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block, that's the end of the internet as we know it, and the return to national networks with very limited interconnection. Even Russia still has address registrations despite being sanctioned.

Alternatively they pressure USA ISPs to block the addresses. That's already regularly done but it probably won't be enough to satisfy the extortion industrial complex which is out for blood.

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

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Post by MarsIronPI »

pnathan wrote: post #116
koheripbal wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add a little context, this suspension comes immediately after Anna's Archive publicly implicated themselves in the Spotify scraping "hack" in which they downloaded nearly the entire content library of Spotify and was preparing to release it publicly (~300TB worth) via torrent. They published a blog post outlining their plans.

Did the operators _want_ to poke the well connected & well funded bear with a historical anger problem?

No, but they weren't not going to, given that their mission is to archive all cultural content, by hook or by crook.

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

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Post by pbiggar »

immibis wrote: post #127
pbiggar wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gaza video archive is https://genocide.live , and it was Namecheap that took it down. https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2006732606164152651

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Still visible for me. Try https://nitter.space/receipts_lol/status/2006732606164152651

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

hypeatei wrote: post #84
dmantis wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tor and I2P is a better fit. Nostr is very weird. It sells itself as decentralized, but basically all frontends provide same several relays. When those relays get subpoenas and remove your resource, you're done. You can use some unknown relays to publish, but who's gonna use them as clients outside of the defaults? It's effectively designed for shadowbans.

Tor, sure. i2p requires some proxy config in your browser and you need to run a service in the background explicitly. I wish they'd release a dedicated client like Tor does.

Both require daemons that offer SOCKS (other other protocols) proxies for browsers to route through.

If you're talking about the Tor Browser bundle, I2P has this: https://geti2p.net/en/download/easyinstall

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

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Post by jacquesm »

mastermedo wrote: post #111

I still remember the hiatus around the pirate bay . org going down back in the day. They updated the landing page on the alternative domains to include a hydra above the pirate ship where above each hydra head there was a domain name[1]. I thought that was a great comeback by the maintainers. [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-pirate-bay-has-a-new-log...

Those guys should get a prize for resilience alone, they put many government run services to shame. The only thing all this legal stuff seems to have done is to harden them even further.

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

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Post by pbiggar »

immibis wrote: post #127
pbiggar wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gaza video archive is https://genocide.live , and it was Namecheap that took it down. https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2006732606164152651

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Article about it if that's better https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

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

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Post by MarsIronPI »

reorder9695 wrote: post #74

I always wonder why sites like Anna's Archive (and a lot of torrent tracker sites) don't provide .onion addresses. I imagine a significant proportion of their traffic comes from the Tor network, and onion addresses don't have this same weakness that regular DNS addresses have as they're just the key. I can't imagine if they have the servers already up and running, running an .onion address is that much more work cons…

If they're going to have .onion and .p2p addresses, they should also add Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is easier to have always running in the background so I don't have to toggle it on just to access AA.

EDIT: Never mind, I forgot how the Tor software works. I still think also having Yggdrasil would be nice, though.

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