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Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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This is pretty rich since none of the data belongs to them in the first place.

Same exact thing applies to physical libraries. If they were attempted in the last 50 years, they too would be illegal. And all books could be confiscated, building be sold at police auction, and the people who run it would be in prison. It was only because libraries were made 120 years ago BY billionaires of their time (Carnegie, etc), and was a a way for those billionaires to sanitize their history of abuse by phil…

There are a number of significant differences. For one thing, physical libraries have to purchase the books that they own.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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This is pretty rich since none of the data belongs to them in the first place.

Well it should be unconstitutional for any law or government ordinance to demand compliance with any standards that are pay-to-copy. Arguably the government should publish a blessed magnet link of a blessed torrent file per each field of standard. Probably with the padding files used to make each PDF individually hash-checkable. If nothing else it's a practical way of declaring what standard version is the legally si…

The ISO should make all their standards CC BY-NC

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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I'd like to donate to help their cause. Does anyone know if it is legal for me to do so?

The laws around the world are different. The laws within countries are different. Without giving any indication where you are from, nobody can give you any information.

There is a FAQ page https://annas-archive.gl/faq#donate which for example gives you a Monero address which would mean completely anonymous donation.

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