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

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Post by dmix »

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.

People always say this like the tech industry wasn't culturally anti-copyright and pro-creative commons before. Those same people probably work at Meta and Anthropic, just like Google's book project which got them in trouble.

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

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Post by wswope »

nostrademons wrote: post #149
wswope wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fair point, but I think the Pinkertons would be at my door within the hour if I started re-appropriating the art style of Studio Ghibli or Disney for commercial profit.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

sanskritical wrote: post #56
supermatt wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I highly doubt nostr’s suitability as a petabyte DFS/CDN.

This is a discussion on whether or not it is better to use it to announce new domain names post-suspension than Wikipedia, not if it can sustain petabytes of data.

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

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Post by wswope »

dmix wrote: post #151
wswope wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People always say this like the tech industry wasn't culturally anti-copyright and pro-creative commons before. Those same people probably work at Meta and Anthropic, just like Google's book project which got them in trouble.

> People always say this like the tech industry wasn't culturally anti-copyright and pro-creative commons before.

I completely agree with that. The problem is that the current system is such that only billion dollar players can flout the rules, while everyone else is left in the dust.

Worst of both worlds IMO.

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

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Post by ur-whale »

jacquesm wrote: post #142

If anything this is a very strong argument for a completely decentralized domain name system. The DNS is much too fragile in light of all of the recent developments.

> If anything this is a very strong argument for a completely decentralized domain name system.

As you probably know, this is a very old idea, dating back almost from the birth of bitcoin [1] [2].

Real shame it didn't take off.

[1] https://www.namecoin.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

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

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Post by dmix »

wswope wrote: post #154
dmix wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People always say this like the tech industry wasn't culturally anti-copyright and pro-creative commons before. Those same people probably work at Meta and Anthropic, just like Google's book project which got them in trouble.

> People always say this like the tech industry wasn't culturally anti-copyright and pro-creative commons before. I completely agree with that. The problem is that the current system is such that only billion dollar players can flout the rules, while everyone else is left in the dust. Worst of both worlds IMO.

Others already mentioned they lost their lawsuit. Should the fines have killed Anthropic? Would have been more fair and a less bad world?

Why not focus energy on being anti-aggressive copyright in general. These system won't ever be fair. It's just rent seeking enabled by the government and some people can afford the rent.

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

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Post by colejohnson66 »

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…

Onion/Tor has horrendous latency and throughput. Latency is bearable, but dial-up speeds for downloading can drive one insane.

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

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Post by ur-whale »

Funny how HN is usually ripe with folks crawling out of the woodwork to defend IP ownership as a fundamentally important principle, both on moral and economic grounds.

Yet, as of 08:37:36 MST Monday, 5 January 2026 there isn't a single comment on this thread complaining about Anna's IP theft.

Don't get me wrong, that makes me VERY happy, I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay.

But still, I can't help but wonder why the "this is IP theft" crowd is completely silent when it comes to the like of pirate bay and Anna.

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

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Post by Hendrikto »

xvector wrote: post #88
tasuki wrote: post #28

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Trying to understand nostr, I looked up its Wikipedia page... > In 2024, in an article reporting on the project's funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist. That... seems extremely irrelevant. If fiatjaf is contributing something useful and significant to the…

Definitely a smear campaign, ironically one that seems to be organized by left-leaning individuals on Wikipedia, Business Insider, etc. Which is bizarre to me because aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism? They are attacking their own side (again.) When will idealists learn that this is not the way?

> aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism?

Everybody wants free speech — but only for opinions they agree with. And they are against censorship — unless the "right people" are censored.

Recently, the left has been far more authoritarian, labeling everything they don't like as "far right hate speech", pushing to make dissent illegal, and demanding censorship. I guess the pendulum will swing the other way eventually.

It's not really a left VS right issue, but an authoritarian one. Free speech can be uncomfortable, that is the point. "Free speech, but…" does not work.

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

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Post by hirako2000 »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #22
hirako2000 wrote: post #7

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But this mechanism is used to circumvent DNS blockade. Wikipedia may be next to moderate if they can force DNS providers and even the org registrar to give in, wikipedia could fold too. Then pastebin, never ending cat and mouse game.

Why should wikipedia fold? Can any country put any legitimate pressure against them for just listing a domain.

Why should registrar/ISP fold?

It's not that they should, they often do though.

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