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

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• StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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• Blueoaky@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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”.

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  • testaccount372920@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why aren’t they suing AI then?

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because those companies can fight back, and besides, they went to college with the guys running them.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They are? The suits from major publishers were all over the news when they were started in early 2025.

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• plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But it’s fair use: I’m using it to train my AI (actual intelligence)

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• kittykillinit@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  RIP to a real one. I read a lot of books because of Anna’s.

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are plenty of mirrors, they aren’t going anywhere.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, what now??

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. Go to Anna’s Archive Wikipedia page
  2. Look at one of the 3 different urls published

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• kittykillinit@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.

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• SavageCoconut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Couldn’t they just go to Tor like zlib did?

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