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

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Post by kvemkon »

_yb2s wrote: post #280
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You wouldn't download a car. (I mean: You wouldn't steal a car. :-) ).

That was always such a silly argument, even more so with the rise of cheap and reliable 3D printing. I download, print, and use physical objects every week and don’t know or care what IP issues might exist as long as it works for its purpose. I can’t wait until the day comes when you can download and print a working car at home.

But such working cars from home will not be certified to participate at the public traffic and remain toys for driving on own private property.

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

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Post by drnick1 »

MarsIronPI wrote: post #215
mmooss wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archiving it and publishing it are different things. More importantly, they may sabotage their mission: If Spotify shuts them down, their exiting archives and especially future archives may be effectively lost.

I guess I should say more accurately: Their mission is to both archive it and publish it. They seem to be explicitly against copyright, on principle. Which I greatly respect.

It's time to abolish copyright. It creates more problems (stiffles innovation, creates rents) than it solves (rewards innovation).

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

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Post by andai »

comex wrote: post #295
silisili wrote: post #259

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Used to work for a registry. Registries do not just arbitrarily serverHold things they don't like. Even in blatant abuse cases, they'll reach out to the registrar to clientHold it or delete it instead. I suspect this came from a court order. The only time I remember serverHolding things were from court orders or other legal requests(FBI/DHS/etc). Though the latter would often just ask for the nameservers to be change…

Not my experience. My personal .us domain was placed in serverHold in April 2025, after Godaddy Registry sent my registrar an email including the following: "If we do not receive a response and the abusive content remains active, the referred domain will be suspended (-ServerHold-) twelve (12) hours after this notification, to limit any potential damage." Yes, only 12 hours' notice. And this was in response to what l…

literally 1984

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

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Post by cxplay »

dmantis wrote: post #97
sanskritical wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You announce all the relays you publish to to the relays you are publishing to. If someone quotes your post in a post of their own, in many clients subsequent readers will be able to retrieve your content from the relays which they don't currently follow. Relay discovery mechanisms grow progressively better. I don't know of any pubkey ever banned from major relays. The operator of Damus, one of the more successful cl…

I still don't get how to bypass a theoretical block, you need to access at least one of the current major relays or a side channel to find a follower, only аfter that you can re-translate the new set of relays. The autosub is good, but IMO the current major operators have an Elusive Joe situation because nostr is very small. Things will change as soon as people with money and government connections see it as a proble…

Check NIP-65[1], this is the key to the latest Nostr client's automatic discovery feature.

[1] https://nips.nostr.com/65

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

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Post by mmooss »

drnick1 wrote: post #312
MarsIronPI wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess I should say more accurately: Their mission is to both archive it and publish it. They seem to be explicitly against copyright, on principle. Which I greatly respect.

It's time to abolish copyright. It creates more problems (stiffles innovation, creates rents) than it solves (rewards innovation).

It doesn't create problems for large companies that make AI systems.

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

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Post by mystraline »

flipped wrote: post #120
mystraline wrote: post #85

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And also IPFS rats our to the whole world all your network interfaces, MAC addresses, and internal network configs. And even after multiple requests of supporting a Tor mode, have routinely ignored that with "but its too hard!" And, I quit running IPFS back in the .31 version after adding some chat logs to my local machine's share, and found a google crawler within 1 hour and fully indexed them. No thanks.

What? That's the laziest argument against IPFS. Bind it on one interface or just use a VM.

Defaults absolutely matter.

And no, I dont my whole internal network enumerable because of 'convenience'.

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

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Post by ThatPlayer »

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.

The speeds are usually bad because exit nodes are more rare. But Onion addresses don't go through an exit, and stay within the Tor network.

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

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Post by cxplay »

cxplay wrote: post #314
dmantis wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still don't get how to bypass a theoretical block, you need to access at least one of the current major relays or a side channel to find a follower, only аfter that you can re-translate the new set of relays. The autosub is good, but IMO the current major operators have an Elusive Joe situation because nostr is very small. Things will change as soon as people with money and government connections see it as a proble…

Check NIP-65[1], this is the key to the latest Nostr client's automatic discovery feature. [1] https://nips.nostr.com/65

To improve user experience, Nostr clients typically pre-load several large relays. In fact, Nostr also supports using NIP-19[1] pointers to pass custom relay hints to the client, similar to the tracker in BitTorrent and Magnet. Furthermore, I believe that with Let's Encrypt now offering free and widespread IP certificates, domain dependency issues will be further alleviated on Nostr.

[1]: https://nips.nostr.com/19

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Post by pegasus »

krick wrote: post #288
iso1631 wrote: post #253

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> It turned out I hardly can find an artist I recognize I've heard of 9 of the top 10 and 15 of the top 20 at https://chartmasters.org/most-monthly-listeners-on-spotify/ You might not listen, but surely you have heard of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and of course Christmas Staples of Mariah Carey and Wham?

First off, this is not the top we are talking about, since there is one that AA provided[0]. I am not sure what it matters which names exactly I've heard of, but if you are that curious: I don't know what is Ed Sheeran and Wham (but cannot vouch I've never heard their music in a supermarket), but I definitely remember "Coldplay" being mentioned in a joke onstage by a NIN member[1], but I didn't bother to check out wh…

You're a (waaay) outlier.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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