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Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by kdhaskjdhadjk »

SilverElfin wrote: post #111

So how does one find this archive and how can it be kept alive in a decentralized way? I’m not super familiar with it.

annas-archive.gl

It's a treasure trove of knowledge. A true priceless gem. Enjoy it while it lasts.

If you want to help keep the site's content alive in a decentralized way, just buy $20,000 worth of hard drives and a very big internet pipe and start downloading their torrents.

Otherwise if you're broke like me, donate and/or leech every valuable book on every subject you can think of from their servers, while you're able to do so, and keep them stored safely offline. Buy only server grade hard drives and use them gently. Buy backup drives and use a ZFS mirror.

In either case, get an older tape drive and some tapes, and learn about tar, lzip, par2, mt-st. Get multiple tape drives if possible (for spares) and make sure your written tapes are readable in all of them. Store the tapes and hardware properly and securely.

Eventually Anna's Archive will be shut down. It's only a matter of time. It will be a great tragedy for humanity, akin to the day the Library of Alexandria was burned down. Until that happens, people who care need to do all they can to help save anything and everything of value while it's still online.

"Anything truly good and useful that is put on the internet, especially if it's of large benefit to humanity, will eventually be shut down and replaced with some watered down paywalled garbage, if anything at all." - kdhaskjdhadjk's Law

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by an0malous »

mentalgear wrote: post #115
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #107

Ironic, since Spotify started by pirating music[0] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

Same as Facebook: They got big by the Zuck sucking messages and content from MySpace - then Facebook afterwards lobbied to put laws in place to forbid this kind of 'interoperability' across platforms. Youtube started out 'allegedly' by members of their team uploading pirated hollywood movies (because they had no content), posing as users to fall under the "user-content" policy to make the company not liable. They are…

Airbnb did the same with Craigslist posts. Reddit did the same with Digg posts. OpenAI mastered the technique by stealing basically the entire Internet.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by kdhaskjdhadjk »

EA-3167 wrote: post #146
TitaRusell wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically thanks to Putin piracy sites have safe harbour in Russia. Someone in the Kremlin understands "bread and games" and they're not very receptive for sob stories from Hollywood.

Plus they can probably use them to inject malware and god knows what else.

Which imperial power do you suppose it was who quietly took over ThePirateBay and major trackers and now uses them for that exact purpose, as one of their many tools to create botnets that are then used to attack Western sites, helping to drive the adoption of CloudFlare and the like?

Hint: Not Russia.

Hint #2: Not China.

Hint #3: Not North Korea, Iran, or Syria.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by giancarlostoro »

weinzierl wrote: post #202
progbits wrote: post #128

They will never see a single cent from that, AA will continue to rotate domains and nothing was accomplished, except for spotify's legal team which earned easy money arguing against empty chair in court. BTW, you can donate and get faster downloads: https://annas-archive.gl/donate Just donated in honor of this. Up yours spotify!

Maybe it's not about the money primarily. There are enough parties out there that want the people behind Anna's archive behind bars and I'm afraid this will end the same way as for the Pirate Bay guys in the best case and like it ended for Aaron Schwartz in the worst.

Or you know, MegaUpload. Raided at his home, while congress was trying to pass a bill, that allowed them to... stop online piracy... apparently, they REALLY needed that bill in order to do so.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by baranul »

Salgat wrote: post #238
weinzierl wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's not about the money primarily. There are enough parties out there that want the people behind Anna's archive behind bars and I'm afraid this will end the same way as for the Pirate Bay guys in the best case and like it ended for Aaron Schwartz in the worst.

If the operators of Anna's Archive live somewhere like Russia or China, there's a good chance nothing will ever come of any of this legal action. Anna's Archive's biggest challenge is just maintaining availability of infrastructure.

If they were not physically in Russia or similar country out of the jurisdiction of the court, then they have likely moved to one or operate from one.

At this point, the court is just a willing instrument of corporate anger and assistant to help vent their frustration. The secondary purpose, is to erode rights and privacy, for a continual surveillance state and gain as much control over the DNS infrastructure as possible.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by antinomicus »

_-_-__-_-_- wrote: post #159

Last week, I set-up a navidrome (docker compose) server after tagging my files with MusicBrainz and beets. I serve it over a private network (tailnet) using tailscale serve. It works on all my devices and on iOS with an app called Nautiline. Nautiline has a feature where it will switch between my local network address and my tailnet address seamlessly. It was so simple, I can't actually believe it works. It has CarPl…

I’ve done the same and included on the same server the equivalent for every type of media: tv shows, movies, ebooks, audiobooks, even YouTube through a sophisticated proxy rotation pool. I have rid myself of every awful enshittified platform and I finally feel free from the bullshit.

Check out audiomuse-ai on GitHub for an open source song vector space embedding system that allows clustering and traversing a huge graph of similar songs, giving you really smart playlists and radios. Smart local LLM playlists are included.

Now I’m on to building a layer to take my song data and use it to query a bunch of apis to allow for “your favorite bands are playing near you” feature that isn’t sponsored.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by dmbche »

erkt wrote: post #241
ffsm8 wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw, piratebay continues to be the -to my knowledge- biggest public tracker out there, with basically every media production available. And I think that was his point. They may ruin some people's life's... but aside from that, they achieve nothing.

Just visited two nights ago and was pleasantly surprised to see domains active with fresh magnets. The people are returning to nature.

It never stopped!

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by worldsavior »

zarzavat wrote: post #206
worldsavior wrote: post #143

How are the mainteners stay anonymous while buying many domains and servers?

It's not hard. You could just pay someone else to buy the domain for you.

You need many that are willing to risk themselves going to jail. I don't think that's their method.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by sebastiansm7 »

zhengyi13 wrote: post #235
sebastiansm7 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still remember those times watching movies or documentaries by parts. Sometimes I started watching just to discover that part 8 was missing :( edit: in previous years some anime communities uploaded episodes to photo sites. They chunked the episodes in small JPGs with the video data encrypted. Just download hundreds of photos, join them and you got the episode :)

Wild to see the usenet/uuencoding model reproduced on the web w/ jpegs.

Then with the raise of rapidshare, megaupload, etc that JPG thing stopped.

Re: Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Post by brailsafe »

comrade1234 wrote: post #48

After getting burned on faked/gamed ratings on a book trilogy where I had bought all three books before I started reading (they were terrible and I gave up during the second book), I now use Anna's archive to download a book and decide if I will pay for it later after reading at least some of it.

Seems like quite an eager purchase. Could you not have borrowed one of them from the library?
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