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Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Cross-posted from "Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension" by @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de in !DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] 60 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I don't get why they did the Spotify thing. It was obviously going to put a massive target on their back

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there's a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.

    Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they'd just continued with their existing archival efforts. That's why, when I found I wasn't able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.

    Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what's bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    .gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that's a real one?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    You're right, it was the .se one I used and I misremembered when writing my comment. Though this mistake highlights why adding sites like this to your bookmarks is important. Opportunistic scams are always common when a big domain goes down, and mistakes are easy to make

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