Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

Post by staplers » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

krick wrote: post #196

koheripbal wrote: post #95

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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.

Yeah, obviously I don't know if it is actually related, but my first thought when I couldn't open it today was "Told you so"...

Post by chrisjj » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

squigz wrote: post #188

chrisjj wrote: post #175

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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.

Post by lukan » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #194

lukan wrote: post #177

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Fortunately, Spotify does not have that power. Annas Archive is not based in US or EU jurisdictions. They can make access for normal people a bit harder, but not shut it down. (Edited for clarity)

> Fortunately, Spotify does not have that power. They are not based in US or EU jurisdictions. Perhaps I misunderstood something, but according to my understanding 1. Spotify is registered in Luxembourg and has its operational headquarter in Sweden (Stockholm). Both are EU countries. 2. I guess it won't be Spotify that sues, but the individual music labels (very likely united).

Post by mantisV3 » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #168

flipped wrote: post #51

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Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

>It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. You may own the keys but the non-profit The Tor Project owns the network. And when they decide to shut it down your "ownership" of the domain keys doesn't matter in the slightest. You might think this is a silly scenario but actually it happened in 2021/2022 when the tor project unilaterally decided to kill th…

Post by sanskritical » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

mantisV3 wrote: post #207

superkuh wrote: post #168

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>It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. You may own the keys but the non-profit The Tor Project owns the network. And when they decide to shut it down your "ownership" of the domain keys doesn't matter in the slightest. You might think this is a silly scenario but actually it happened in 2021/2022 when the tor project unilaterally decided to kill th…

They didn't provide any migration path from v2 to v3?