▲ 382 ▼ Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension (torrentfreak.com) submitted 7 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com [M] to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments Cross-posted from "Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension" by @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de in !DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 60 points 7 months ago (3 children) I don't get why they did the Spotify thing. It was obviously going to put a massive target on their back permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 7 months ago It was very much complementary to their already existing archival goals. I think they felt they had good enough opsec and went for it, which is really based IMO permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hobovision@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children) .gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that's a real one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) That's the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li and annas-archive.gl. Edit: annas-archive.se, annas-archive.in, and annas-archive.pm also no longer work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 months ago same, like they could've just used a different pseudonym? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 7 months ago It was very much complementary to their already existing archival goals. I think they felt they had good enough opsec and went for it, which is really based IMO permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hobovision@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children) .gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that's a real one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) That's the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li and annas-archive.gl. Edit: annas-archive.se, annas-archive.in, and annas-archive.pm also no longer work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children) .gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that's a real one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) That's the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li and annas-archive.gl. Edit: annas-archive.se, annas-archive.in, and annas-archive.pm also no longer work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) That's the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li and annas-archive.gl. Edit: annas-archive.se, annas-archive.in, and annas-archive.pm also no longer work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 months ago same, like they could've just used a different pseudonym? permalink fedilink source parent