Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Post by janisian » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 12:32 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #318

aidenn0 wrote: post #304

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It's complicated. Many years ago, I was involved in a movie release group. Pretty much everybody in that group owned more VHSs/DVDs than the typical person. This is probably not surprising, since the time and effort one needs to put into that is rather large. Those who only downloaded were more of a mixed bag; some of them were not in the US and might not be able to see a domestic release of the movies any time soon.…

I spent a small fortune on a record collection. Then the record format was abandoned and it was all CDs. I spent a small fortune re-buying that same record collection, insofar as the records were even available as CDs. Then we went all digital (yes, I know CDs were already digital) and it became MP3s. So I ripped my CD collection and assigned them to a box in my attic. I will not be spending money on spotify or whate…

Post by _thisdot » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

thomassmith65 wrote: post #197

hereme888 wrote: post #167

Isn't it humorous how citizens are pro Anna's archive, but governments are against it? Bit of additional evidence for elitism and such.

It is neither humorous nor strange because that formulation omits authors . How many authors who write the books in Anna's archive are happy about it? I personally am pro Anna's archive (and sci-hub, etc) because I believe it benefits society to have better-read citizens. That said, I have some misgivings, because under our current system, there are issues with law and remuneration.

Post by lolive » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #513

msp26 wrote: post #361

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The french comic pirate scene has an interesting rule where they keep a ~6 month time lag on what they release. The scene is small enough that the rule generally works. It's a really good trade-off. I would never have gotten into these comics without piracy but now if something catches my eye, I don't mind buying on release (and stripping the DRM for personal use). Most of my downloading is closer to collecting/hoard…

So copyright just with a shorter time limit?

Post by borski » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 1:34 AM UTC

lode wrote: post #448

qualeed wrote: post #117

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Luckily it isn't the only public DNS. 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and many others exist.

Here it's Cloudflare the CDN, sitting in front of Anna's Archive, that's doing the blocking. The DNS resolver used doesn't come into play. (Case in point, I am using Google's DNS, yet still encounter the block when accessing from a Belgian IP.)

Post by brianstorms » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 4:35 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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