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

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Post by hamdingers »

Minor49er wrote: post #337
hamdingers wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Your link only shows past 5 years, so you're missing the hayday of music piracy, was this intentional?

Try this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...

Try with any music piracy (or hell, piracy in general) related search terms and you'll see a similar trend.

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

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Post by chrisjj »

squigz wrote: post #356
chrisjj wrote: post #350

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> Both I and GP have pointed out the crux of the matter "They're not 'a' non-profit". > and you are ignoring it. No. I am challenging it. I've seen no evidence either way and so far it seems nor have you. So let's wait and see.

Literally everybody except you knows what I and both GP were referring to.

Everybody including me, I'd say.

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

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Post by superkuh »

flipped wrote: post #258
superkuh wrote: post #168

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>It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. You may own the keys but the non-profit The Tor Project owns the network. And when they decide to shut it down your "ownership" of the domain keys doesn't matter in the slightest. You might think this is a silly scenario but actually it happened in 2021/2022 when the tor project unilaterally decided to kill th…

They don't own the network. The people who run the relays do. v2 wasn't shutdown in an instant. It was necessary and you could have just redirected your users to v3 and tell them to use it instead but you had to whine about your short-commings on Tor? It's not only for high-security. It's for the state-of-the-art anonymity.

All the links between .onion sites broke when the relay and other infrastructure operators started running the broken (no Torv2 support) releases the Tor Project put out. All the writings of sites about each other. Everything that made it a web.

It doesn't matter that it was technical possible to try to manually reach out to random visitors of my sites and try to tell them that the entire domain name was changing. That didn't fix the web or links aspect at all.

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

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Post by tertle950 »

mmooss wrote: post #315
drnick1 wrote: post #312

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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.

Yeah, it seems to only be a problem when you're a human being remixing the culture you grew up with.

Meta can admit to soullessly scraping books they don't own for their for-profit AI datasets [1], and it's not a problem because they're Meta. But if you're an artist? Nope. Sampling in hip hop songs, for example, is in a "complex legal gray area" (translation: "it's illegal but we don't want to admit that out loud") [2].

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-bo...

[2] https://urbanspook.com/copyright-laws-2025-impact-on-hip-hop...

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

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Post by _yb2s »

kvemkon wrote: post #326
_yb2s wrote: post #325

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No, it is possible to register a homemade car for use on public roads, pretty commonly done actually.

Then I'm surprised. It's much different to the usual situation when even mass made products are either banned or very limited, e.g. unicycles prohibited, e-scooters only up to 20 km/h, e-bikes only up to 25 km/h. Regarding 3D made parts recently there was an accident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152941 . One may expect increasing regulation. At least in the air.

I agree, it's surprising. Even in California of all places, you can make a one-off vehicle at home and register it for legal road use, without even needing modern safety or emissions equipment:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/registering-as-a...

Another even more common strategy is to "restore" a classic car using some extremely small number of parts from some really old pre-emissions and pre-safety equipment car. This is often done for hod rods, dune buggies, etc. where it will be, say a "1930 Ford" but contain only some minuscule amount of that original car it is titled and registered as. There's a sizable industry of homemade "kit cars" that require you to start with a legally registered VW Beetle, but ultimately they often retain nothing except parts of the thin sheet metal floor pan, and somehow that is apparently legal.

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

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Post by tavavex »

goku12 wrote: post #355
tavavex wrote: post #252

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I wonder if in the interim period between DNS blocks and full IP bans, some websites will start distributing their IP addresses directly as the "official" way to connect to them.

The question is, how will you obtain that IP address from them? DNS was the answer to that question. So when you ask that question again, you're effectively asking for a DNS alternative.

I mean, all of this is a hypothetical, but wouldn't you find the IP in the same way how you'd find the domain now? If there's means among communities to disseminate new TLDs as these websites are forced to move back and forth, then there's nothing stopping them from sharing IPs instead.

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

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Post by flexagoon »

hermanzegerman wrote: post #344
hirako2000 wrote: post #15

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In that case it would be Elsevier and co.

They only distribute outdated SciHub Records

That's not true. Anna's Archive gets new paper uploads from Z-Lib and LibGen as well. It's much more up to date than SciHub.

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

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Post by flexagoon »

tokai wrote: post #77
arowthway wrote: post #42

Excuse my FUD, but are they really non-profit as described in FAQ? I find it a little hard to believe given how aggressive they are at marketing the paid version.

They provide LLM data sets for 'donations'. They collect other open collections and beg for paid memberships to access pirated material. Its a russian project. You can for sure assume that someone is earning something somewhere.

> Its a russian project

I've seen people claim this a lot, but is there a single proof that supports this? The only potential insights into AA owners was an arrest of a few people suspected of running the site, and they were Latin American, not Russian.

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

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Post by flexagoon »

arowthway wrote: post #42

Excuse my FUD, but are they really non-profit as described in FAQ? I find it a little hard to believe given how aggressive they are at marketing the paid version.

Check their gitlab for bounties. They have a lot of money in reserves to be spent on that. There are a few open bounties for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've also worked on a bounty for them once and can confirm they have plenty more money in their budget. So I believe that they don't pocket donations, or at least not a very large portion of them.

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

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Post by hermanzegerman »

flexagoon wrote: post #367
hermanzegerman wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They only distribute outdated SciHub Records

That's not true. Anna's Archive gets new paper uploads from Z-Lib and LibGen as well. It's much more up to date than SciHub.

Then I need to try it again. I've found it pretty useless compared to NexusSTC for recent papers
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