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A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction

https://lemmus.org/post/20725082

Mar 9 at 8:45pmWeb
Show threadSanctusMar 9
RIP to a real one. I read a lot of books because of Anna’s.
Show threadGerudoMar 9
There are plenty of mirrors, they aren’t going anywhere.
Show threadStarryPhoenix97Mar 9

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

Show threadSkyeStarfallMar 10
If you’re concerned about the site shutting down, seed some of their torrents from their site so that it’s easier to re-launch it if it happens
Show threadXLEMar 9
Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.
Show threadMiles O'BrienMar 10
Why do that and risk actually losing, when you can go after the small guy and send a message to the plebs?
Show threadpelespiritMar 9
Why aren’t they suing AI then?
Show threadebolapieMar 9
Because those companies can fight back, and besides, they went to college with the guys running them.
Show threadTelodzrumMar 9
They are? The suits from major publishers were all over the news when they were started in early 2025.
Show threadkittykillinitMar 9
If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.
Show threadkittykillinitMar 9

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.

Show threadCubitOomMar 9
  • Go to Anna’s Archive Wikipedia page
  • Look at one of the 3 different urls published
    • Anna's Archive - Wikipedia

    Show threadBlueoakyMar 9

    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”.

    Show threadtestaccount372920Mar 10
    That can only happen if we stop giving a shit about impact factors (and remove it from legal hiring requierements in some countries) and when big name PIs stop giving excuses like ‘I want my research to be read’ as if that wouldn’t happen in the journals that are more appropriate for the topic they publish in.
    Show threadMonkderVierteMar 10

    Well, what now??

    Show threadplz1Mar 10
    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.
    Show threadSavageCoconutMar 10
    Couldn’t they just go to Tor like zlib did?
    Show threadslaacaaMar 10
    But it’s fair use: I’m using it to train my AI (actual intelligence)