Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Post by therealcamino » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 8:38 PM UTC

xandrius wrote: post #303

brianstorms wrote: post #174

Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucking time for criminals like these to just break copyright law and make the book available for free. Fuck Anna's Archive, and I hope they go down in legal flames ASAP.

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Post by fsflover » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 8:44 PM UTC

IAmBroom wrote: post #491

joha4270 wrote: post #223

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Even if that might be the case now, I doubt that holds if piracy becomes truly widespread. I would suspect A pirates book B and tells C about it, C buys book B is a lot more common than A pirates book B and likes it enough to buy it I have no data to support this, and while I have paid for things I could access for free, but I'm sufficiently pessimistic about human nature to think that's the norm.

"Despite the data, I continue to guess that in the future my hypothesis will be true." Bold. Not inherently incorrect, but not optimally heuristic.

Post by cbility » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 9:20 PM UTC

Post by computerdork » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 10:21 PM UTC

NoGravitas wrote: post #511

computerdork wrote: post #379

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Yeah, usually, have also read that the only ones to make music on Spotify are major artists. They take a huge chunk of the the money distributed to musicians. At least for me, have never heard of any musician making a living off of their Spotify sales, not even close. And Bandcamp does seem nice, wish it took off more. And yes, I do completely agree with you that there are some big positives with today's music landsc…

Even well-known artists don't make meaningful amounts of money off of Spotify if they're not currently topping the charts. Year before last, I think it was, "Weird Al" Yankovic announced that he had made enough off of Spotify that year to buy "a pretty nice sandwich".

Post by pkamb » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 11:25 PM UTC

lioeters wrote: post #375

pkamb wrote: post #242

Does Anna's Archive or a similar site host, say, the complete New York Times (pre-1930) as a full PDF download set? And every other newspaper too? Tons of public domain sources are locked into websites like Newspapers.com or the nearly-dead and now completely unsearchable old Google News / Newspaper. It would be nice if the massive pursuit of AI training data resulted in some fully-legal open source alternatives to t…

> complete New York Times (pre-1930) https://archive.org/search?query=title%3ANew+York+Times&sort... > as a full PDF download set I imagine it's possible to achieve this through torrents from Anna's, but you'd have to search and compile the list of all individual PDFs. > something new with an AI-powered search With enough time and willingness, someone could put all the old NYT issues through optical character recogni…