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

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Post by leoh »

hliyan wrote: post #13

Is this an abuse of the ServerHold status? Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently? > This status code is set by your domain's Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS. > If you provided delegation information (name servers), this status may indicate an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to request more information.…

> Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently?

The mechanism used to shut down a website whose videos were fake and that was funded by actual terrorists? I don’t think Anna’s Archive is in the same category, no.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

azinman2 wrote: post #186
NetMageSCW wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t come anywhere close to the entire content library, the 300TB represents about 33% of Spotify, though it is close to 100% of the played music.

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

From a stat I saw years ago, about the same amount of apps on the iOS app store have never been downloaded.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

miyuru wrote: post #21
zelphirkalt wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DNS is another layer. The URLs shown on Wikipedia will still have to be resolved to IP addresses, which is where DNS comes in. Referring to Wikipedia for the URLs/domains does nothing to circumvent DNS blockades.

Maybe with the upcoming IP address certificates, we can use IP addresses again. I remember using IP addresses to access some sites in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379034

Using a wildcard DNS service, you can already do this.

https://sslip.io/ for instance.

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

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Post by anabab »

hamdingers wrote: post #267
eli wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure archiving and publishing are different things.

They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless. I occasionally wonder how many enormous collections of culture like that of Marion Stokes[1] have been lost because their curators made no effort to realize the value of their collection. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

> They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless.

One may collect/archive now (when the data is, well, "available"), and publish later, when copyright expires and the material will likely be harder to obtain.

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

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Post by Minor49er »

hamdingers wrote: post #279
jacquesm wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piracy is killing music.

Streaming is killing music piracy. The scene is a shell of its former self.

Hardly. Soulseek has been gaining interest in recent years, for one:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

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

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Post by squigz »

krick wrote: post #328
pegasus wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're a (waaay) outlier.

Are you sure? See, my point is a conjecture (based on a reasonable assumption that I cannot be that special), that there must be really a lot of us "outliers" out there (so I'm not even sure it's reasonable to call us that). Let's reiterate. I am well aware that more people listen to that Bad Rabbit, Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber than they listen to , it's not really a surprise. There even is a special name for peopl…

The metadata torrent is only ~200GB, which should be well within your capabilities.

https://annas-archive.li/torrents/spotify

Anyway, I think you should keep in mind 2 things:

1) 10,000 tracks really is not a lot. It sounds like a lot, but isn't. My own - relatively small - collection is nearly double that.

2) 10,000 tracks... out of 256,000,000 that AA archived.

I'd be very interested to see some more analysis done on this, particularly as it relates to, say, Last.fm statistics - but I suspect the missing music is not as significant as you think.

In any case, even if every one of those "niche" artists you list are missing from this collection, I don't think it's fair to say it's a "laughable attempt" - it's certainly better than nothing, even if it's not perfect.

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

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Post by squigz »

mr_toad wrote: post #324
iso1631 wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

The funny thing is, since the advent of streaming I no longer listen to the radio. I listen to new music, but little pop music, and I have never heard a single track from Swift, Bieber, Grande or Sheeran. Coldplay is the only act I like on that list, and the streaming services are pretty good at only playing what I like. If they were pre-streaming artists I probably would have heard a lot of their catalog because rad…

Traditional radio mostly sucks, but Soma.fm and KEXP are both great for discovering new music.

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

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Post by squigz »

amatecha wrote: post #284

This happened a couple days ago, not "a few hours ago". I was surprised torrentfreak hadn't posted about it at the time -- maybe took them a while to notice? I tried to hit the site on Jan 2nd, 10:40pm pacific timezone, and the domain was inaccessible then.

You could consider emailing them if you notice things first in the future

https://torrentfreak.com/contact/

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