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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 MarsIronPI »

mmooss wrote: post #167
MarsIronPI wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How do you access Yggdrasil? .onion addresses require downloading a web browser.

Yggdrasil provides an IPv6 address in a formerly reserved and therefore unused block, so you just run Yggdrasil and visit the IPv6 address.

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

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Post by tokai »

chrisjj wrote: post #175
tokai wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are not a non-profit because they are not a registered company/organization.

There is no requirement for a non-profit organisation to be registered.

There is. Without a legal framework its just an association that claims not to make a profit. This is all word games though as be clearly don't agree on the definition of a non-profit organization.

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

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Post by haunter »

xandrius wrote: post #12

And that's why helping torrenting and seeding the content of AA is vital: they can take down a domain name but not block everyone who seeds. I said this before but if you've got some spare GB/TB on a computer/server, consider "donating" it for culture preservation purposes: https://annas-archive.se/torre nts

I wish I knew what I was seeding though

And I don't mean the copyrighted part (I don't care about that) but the actual content which might be questionable

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

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Post by Zak »

pbiggar wrote: post #113
hliyan wrote: post #13

Is this an abuse of the ServerHold status? Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently? > This status code is set by your domain's Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS. > If you provided delegation information (name servers), this status may indicate an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to request more information.…

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

It looks like it has been restored, and responsibility attributed to a moderator acting hastily due to the extreme nature of the content: https://sunur.substack.com/p/namecheap-stole-the-domain-of-g...

I don't like the idea of registrars doing moderation at all.

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

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Post by integralid »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #157
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.

But you can share torrent links via onion hidden service easily.

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

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Post by azinman2 »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #123
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.

They didn’t come anywhere close to the entire content library, the 300TB represents about 33% of Spotify, though it is close to 100% of the played music.

Kind of nuts that 66% of their library is virtually unplayed. It’s hard to make it as a musician.

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

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Post by dehrmann »

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?

Be careful not to confuse using the material and distributing it. There are open legal cases sorting out what fair use means for generative AI. Distribution (seeding in the case of torrents) of this material isn't legal. It got Meta in trouble, and it's getting Anna's archive in trouble.

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

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Post by squigz »

chrisjj wrote: post #175
tokai wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are not a non-profit because they are not a registered company/organization.

There is no requirement for a non-profit organisation to be registered.

When people talk about a "non profit" entity, they are almost certainly referring to a legal non-profit. Maybe that's not what GP meant.

And yes, you are technically correct in that there's no way to know that they are or are not pulling in money and pocketing it. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the questions asked but okay.

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

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Post by Tepix »

OvbiousError wrote: post #143
luckys wrote: post #41

https://annas-archive.li/ works and there's a few alternatives listed at the bottom of the page

Doesn't work where I live, is the block on a country level?

Try using the DNS4EU resolver, see https://www.joindns4.eu/

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

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Post by miroljub »

blell wrote: post #180
miroljub wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anna Archive is a notable project. Wikipedia displays links to projects. It's not about "being used as DNS" but about providing basic info about the topic, URL being an important part of it.

Kiwifarms is also a notable web site but they do not show a link to it. This means there is editorialisation going on.

That's a common problem of English, German, and a few more Wikipedia editor gangs seeing themselves as the moral guardians of the internet.

If you switch to some other languages, you'll find the links.

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