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

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There's always Freenet...

Freenet is promising but it's not even fully done. Experimental stage. I am also skeptic of their more usage of LLM generated code these days.

Freenet (aka Hyphanet) is 25 years old... it's been "stable" for decades. Biggest problem is that content is sort-of hosted locally and considering how much child porn and other criminal content is in its darker corners tha can be risky.

It's also incredibly slow.

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

It is ridiculously easy to create an album with Suno and push it Spotify. I'm surprised its only 66% TBH

Anna's archive has a great analysis of the Spotify data.

They identify a huge surge in tracks that few listen to after gen AI started.

The analysis is worth reading. The distribution is (Pareto)^3 ~99% of the tracks played are 1% of the catalogue.

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post #276

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In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit", so technically none of what you listed are "non-profit" organizations. These are unincorporated associations, that, by the way, can be making profit (but that would be on shaky grounds, since common law makes it hard not to fuck up, being as vague as it always is). However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it…

> In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit" Incorrect. ‐-------- https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/non-prof... noun [ C ] uk /ˌnɒnˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˌnɑːnˈprɑː.fɪt/ (also not-for-profit) an organization whose aim is to make money for a social or political purpose or to provide a service that people need, rather than to make a profit (Definition of non-profit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner…

I'm not entirely sure what this sort of pedantry is meant to accomplish. Congratulations on being technically correct, I suppose?

Both I and GP have pointed out the crux of the matter, and you are ignoring it.

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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.

You’re talking past me for no real reason, mate. That’s precisely the point I’m making. Young Carlos thinks it matters that Anthropic got sued when they can keep flouting the rules anyway, and I disagree: it’s not a fair system until we ditch the rent-seeking entirely.

They paid one of the largest settlements in world history. Should I guess that hackers are only satisfied with the public execution of the company leadership?

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Spotify was created from a library of pirated music.. the irony

Came here to say that. An while back, another site started with a pile of pirated music, and that was allofmp3.com Remember those peeps? Their business model was to sell music by selling bandwidth. Basically is was all the music you want charged by the megabit download. Pop titles were $0.10 to $0.25. A whole album at 256mbps was roughly $3 give or take. What got me really thinking was how great the UX experience was…

As someone who grew up poor in an ex-Eastern Bloc country, allofmp3.com was a godsend.

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It might be a sincere effort in the beginning, but at this point, Anna is merely AI company’s foot soldier.

Do you mean, intentionally? It's an interesting question; is there any evidence?

Not sure intention but stating the de facto state from my observation.

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It might be a sincere effort in the beginning, but at this point, Anna is merely AI company’s foot soldier.

Which - now that the various commercial LLM companies have harvested the archive, they will be more than happy to use litigation to raise the drawbridge behind them, so as to block any future competitors from acquiring the same training data...

That would be a very interesting and ironic timeline.

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> When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block sed "/Trump/US-Govt/g" Why do people here always casually single out Trump? He's not an outlier, it's just how US foreign policy has worked for centuries.

"Not an outlier" A quick look at the last few administrations is all anyone needs to see how this one interprets the powers and duties that come with the office. One of my favorite phrases coined during the last Trump administration was something like, "not just wrong, but wrong beyond normal parameters." It basically meant exactly what we are discussing here; namely, being an outlier of some sort.

I specifically mentioned foreign policy. There, I don't remember a single US government that was not a net negative for the rest of the world (Israel excluded).

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post #266

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Visible to me, it is not Musk who keeps you from seeing this. Use an X proxy like Nitter to see the content without logging in, that's how I read things on X. These proxies can not be used to post there but since I've never felt the need to post anything there that's no problem to me.

> Visible to me > that's how I read things on X So you are not following posted link either.

I'm following it through my own Nitter proxy because I do not want to log in to X. I do the same with Reddit and Youtube, I use SearXNG for search, XMPP instead of any of the established messaging services for messaging, etc. The fact that the content is visible through Nitter means it is visible on X since Nitter in its current incarnation uses normal logged-in accounts to do its thing.
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