Couldn't they just go to Tor like zlib did?
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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So when Facebook wins their case that basically says "it's only copyright theft when ordinary people do it", Anna's Archive gets a pass, right? I'm assuming Facebook stole some of their training data from there, so fruit of the poisoned tree and all that jazz.
Well, what now??
Elsevier? The company that makes money from public funded research? The one that does basically nothing and earns tons of money on the back of tax payers and free labor of authors, reviewers and editors.
Hopefully open access policies will bring an end to the exploitative business model of science "publisher".
Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they're going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren't even worth money anymore. They're out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.
This is just bullshit
I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna's
Why aren't they suing AI then?
Because those companies can fight back, and besides, they went to college with the guys running them.
They are? The suits from major publishers were all over the news when they were started in early 2025.
obtain an injunction that can apply further pressure on domain registrars and registries.
Fuck the DNS.
We can just have a public page that has their IP address and connect directly using that.
Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.
Why do that and risk actually losing, when you can go after the small guy and send a message to the plebs?
RIP to a real one. I read a lot of books because of Anna's.
You do realize that they don't actually know who runs the website, right? This is a lawsuit against a bunch of John Does. Nothing has changed, AA still exists, and likely will exist long after those lawyers doing the suing retire.
The way Anna's is hosted is awesome
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
Great read. Thank you for sharing!
There are plenty of mirrors, they aren't going anywhere.
If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.