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Ars Technica

Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain

Lawsuit was filed under seal; Anna's Archive wasn't notified until after takedown.

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And just like thepiratebay Anna‘s Archive is goin to stay available forever. 🐈‍⬛ 🐭

This is why I trust no one

What's a stealth infrastructure takedown? What makes this different from all the other domain registry related attacks on shadow libraries? The same happened to LibGen just a few weeks ago. It's completely normal to only learn of your domain being taken from you after the fact or else you'd just move it to a different domain registry.

Never heard of Anna's Archive. Have they moved to a new domain yet?

Daniel Elk isn’t a real elk. Fuck that guy.

This sort of massive, centralized file repository is the wrong solution and legacy tech. Have we learned nothing, from Bitcoin?

Can’t stop a protocol 🏴‍☠️

Fuck criminals from intellectual "property" View quoted note →

Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive

and others are still online. They also have multiple other mirrors. Calibre desktop app and annas archive is killer combo for ebook readers like kindle and kobo.

Decentralized be decentralizing ✨ But this goes to show, the Oligarchs stop at NOTHING to keep making 💰🤑 View quoted note →

And yet, it's back up. Similar to Pirate Bay, that's survived several decades 🏴‍☠️ Credit where credit due. Most of the alleged #FreedomTech we see today is just slop.

4 mirrors thus far 💪 Best place for all our epub and pdf book needs 🫡 to the legends who make and maintain it.

Pana - The Refuge Network State

👑 Anna

Sure, but isn't Anna just a website with a search engine for Pirate Bay?

many simply do not yet know the concept of decentralization, managing a site that is more centralized is easier than one where they give more control to the user.

And for the public archives. It doesn't actually have the books.

What are your official mirrors? Currently our official mirrors are: - annas-archive.li - annas-archive.pm - annas-archive.in Not recommended mirrors (don’t contribute back) - welib.org (NOT RECOMMENDED): They have forked our codebase and files. They haven’t released their new code as open source, nor have they shared any new collections. Fraudulent - annas-archive.su (DO NOT USE): Uses our name without permission. Steals your donations. Who is Anna? You are Anna! No but seriously, how do I know if official communication is from Anna? So far we’ve had a continuous chain from our first publication (on PiLiMi.org) to the current set of domains. In case all our domains get taken down, causing confusion about what constitutes official communication from Anna, here is a public key you can use to verify our signed signatures. Do not use this public key when sending us messages! We do not have the private key to this readily available, it’s stored away for emergencies. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- xjMEAAAAABYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdALQ/QcjyTg8kjI3qpoudsCX+jwh5tl2ExBBm0 LgE9hHnNDkFubmEgQXJjaGl2aXN0wmEEExYIABMFAgAAAAAJENsxLDJ+WGBAAhsD AABppwEArVPP1JLxdnnahvHiiG6CpqnGdylqBDJ4YGwYcwP7Qk4BAIVFVYmd0aQg Yf6q+OhORfJN9w+ytvUQ/q3p2fSFweEL =keqc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- What are your favorite books? Here are some books that carry special significance to the world of shadow libraries and digital preservation: Against intellectual monopoly Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine Cryptonomicon Stephenson, Neal The Boy Who Could Change the World : The Writings of Aaron Swartz Aaron Swartz [Swartz, Aaron] How Music Got Free : A Story of Obsession and Invention Witt, Stephen R Физическая энциклопедия. Ааронова – Длинные Том 1 А. М. Прохоров Enjoy peeps. And mirror it yourselves.

hahah so true

ALTERNATIVE is here: https://welib.st

It would be nice to see these files *blossom" somewhere 🌸

True, but you're criticizing it as a "massive central file repository" yourself. So then, what's your point?

Pirate Bay is the centralization bit, but they're both bottlenecks.

@tigs might have better ones

I'm surprised it's "only" 300TBs, kinda. I mean, that's huge, but smaller than I woulda guessed