Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
Anna's Archive, the shadow library, has weathered $340 million in default judgments and domain seizures, yet remains online. After a recent outage, the site attributed the downtime to a coordinated attack rather than legal action. This piece explores the limits of U.S. court jurisdiction over foreign domains and the potential push for site-blocking legislation.
U.S. courts can’t reach domains registered beyond their jurisdiction.
- num42
Long live Anna’s Archive. I stand on the shoulders of the Internet, Wikipedia, Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, LibGen, YouTube, Hacker News, Reddit, and Sci-Hub.
I deeply admire the people who are obsessed with their passions and strive to build things that will lay the foundations for others.
- Synaesthesia
Incredible website. Really one of the dreams of the internet realised, the ability to access all knowledge at your fingertips.
- throwatdem12311
Didn’t they have a default judgment against them because they didn’t show up to court? Do they even know who runs it?
They railroaded Aaron Swartz (which eventually lead to his suicide) for much, much less.
One side wants to freely share knowledge with all of humanity, the other wants to restrict it to make a buck. I know who I support.
- puppycodes
Anna's Archive is a gift to humanity
- dominick-cc
I don't understand why there is so much love for Anna's archive here. I feel like I'm getting whiplash because there is so much hate for AI companies training and profiting off of the worlds knowledge without licensing it. And yet, a site that directly facilitates that by taking payments from AI companies is lauded as this amazing and honorable thing. Can someone help me understand what im missing?
In general I don't have many qualms with modern piracy, it just seems very hypocritical and I'm confused.
- shaky-carrousel
And Google owes 20 decillion dollars to the Russian government. Who cares either way.
- asdefghyk
I wonder what would happen if Annas archive announced
In response to the 340M fine, ....
"We have set up a LLM and are deleting all our books ? "
- profstasiak
Rembember to seed torrent kids