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If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by s3p »

nerdjon wrote: post #221
yoavm wrote: post #204

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Please, go to https://annas-archive.li/torrents and check their torrent list generator. It will recommend you torrent files that need help seeding. Pick one, and see for yourself that it's practically impossible to audit its content. I just checked and the average torrent size is around 125GB. With a typical file in it being around 0.5mb, you're looking at auditing 250,000 files. And the filenames are all hashes. I w…

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If you are seriously this upset about such a tool, why don't you just avoid using it? Instead of commending the author for their work you're trying to tear them down and prove them wrong in every reply. Why not just move on with your day and avoid using it?

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by kortilla »

yoavm wrote: post #255
filleduchaos wrote: post #252

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Out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have and have you tested this on a computer that does not have as much? Asking because this sounds like a mini-disaster in the making with e.g. macOS' swap and a device with 16GB or even 8GB of RAM.

I'm not sure why you're concerned about RAM; the numbers I mentioned are all relating to diskspace. It doesn't take much RAM at all to run a torrent client daemon. FWIW it runs without any noticeable effects on my OnePlus 6 from 2018.

swap consumes disk. Commenter was talking about a scenario where swap dynamically filling and emptying space on the disk would make your software thrash

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by joquarky »

Maakuth wrote: post #46
yoavm wrote: post #33

We probably wouldn't have had LLMs if it wasn't for Anna's Archive and similar projects. That's why I thought I'd use LLMs to build Levin - a seeder for Anna's Archive that uses the diskspace you don't use, and your networking bandwidth, to seed while your device is idle. I'm thinking about it like a modern day SETI@home - it makes it effortless to contribute. Still a WIP, but it should be working well on Linux, Andr…

How is the anti-P2P enforcement these days? I think there are companies gathering bittorrent swarm data and selling it to lawyers interested in this sort of bullying. In Finland at least you can expect a mail from one of them if your IP address turns up in this data. However I think it is mostly focused on video and music piracy.

I find it absurd that with all of the dhit going on in the world right now that any legal resources are being spent on copyright enforcement.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

raesene9 wrote: post #42
sunaookami wrote: post #20

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#United_Kingdo... >In December 2024, the UK Publishers Association won an order from the High Court of Justice requiring major ISPs to block Anna's Archive and other copyright-infringing sites, extending a list of sites blocked since 2015 under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

I'm going to guess the key differentiator here is "major ISPs". I can see the page fine using a Zen Internet connection, but from my phone, which uses EE, it's blocked.

I can access it from both my mobile and fiber connections, different ISPs. I'm with smaller players so maybe that's it.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by mikkupikku »

yoavm wrote: post #185
flancian wrote: post #182

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I'd like to buck the apparent trend of reacting to your project with shock and horror and instead say I believe it's a great idea, and I appreciate what you are doing! People have been trained to believe (very long) copyright terms are almost a natural law that can't be broken or challenged (if you are an individual; other rules might apply to corporations...) but I think we are better off continuing to challenge thi…

Thank you! I think that's a great idea, and will definitely look into implementing this.

Maybe also a config option to not seed when on battery power (laptop or UPS), although SystemD configuration is arguably a better way to achieve the same.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by hamdingers »

ghostly_s wrote: post #260
hamdingers wrote: post #199

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US colocated seedbox with ~10k film and tv torrents seeding at any given time, the last letter I got was ~2014 IIRC, before that it was several a year. I never responded to any of them. I don't think I'm especially good at covering my tracks, so either they've abandoned individual enforcement in favor of going after distributors or they no longer bother with non-residential IPs.

edit: curious, how were these notices served to you when you were receiving them? Were they sent to the colo who forwarded them to you? Anecdotally it seems the only enforcement in the US these days is via ISPs who have made some agreement to "self-enforce" against their residential customers, sending emails threatening to cancel service after three strikes. They seem to only monitor for select "blockbuster" level mo…

> curious, how were these notices served to you when you were receiving them? Were they sent to the colo who forwarded them to you?

Yup, they would send their spam to `abuse@provider.tld` regarding an IP address, my provider would look up the IP address and forward it to me.

Presumably if they ever cared to escalate they could file a lawsuit and subpoena the provider for my identity, but they never did. They're looking for easy settlements and that would cost time and money.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by throwaway2037 »

acessoproibido wrote: post #219
SecretDreams wrote: post #172

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AA has plenty of illegal and gray content. It's not something laypeople should help to seed. You need to go in eyes wide open and protect yourself if you're participating, which I do not feel you are sufficiently emphasizing in this pitch.

What is an example of illegal content that is distributed by AA?

To clarify your question, are you asking if "AA actually distributes stolen content" (one could argue no, since it is only available by Torrent) or "the stolen contents of AA" (essentially every published book in existance)?

Honestly, in these HN discussions, I am disappointed that people seem very casual about mass piracy of copyrighted works.

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