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[-] higgsboson@piefed.social 215 points 4 months ago
[-] tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 4 months ago
[-] trk@aussie.zone 16 points 4 months ago
[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Telegram is very diligent with deleting piracy channels, I'd say it's so unreliable as not to be worth the effort of setting up.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago

And half of them are blocked by German ISPs because of a coalition of people that decide what is and isn't allowed without any government supervision.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 126 points 4 months ago

DEFINITELY due to the Spotify breach.

Honestly I'm surprised they kept their org domain this long

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 23 points 4 months ago

Given how things work, they should have created another "brand" just for the spotify breach (e.g. Audio Hub). Annas Archive was just going so well...

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 11 points 4 months ago

Anna's Audio was right there, man.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nah. AA themselves say they don't think it is due to Spotify. And it would be too quick, they say they were kicked based on a legal request, hardly something you expect to be carried out in, what, two weeks at most?

Book publishers are unlikely to be any less ruthless than Spotify. Remember how they wanted to fuck over Internet Archive (and partly succeeded). This is more likely to be their doing.

[-] vpol@feddit.uk 100 points 4 months ago
[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 67 points 4 months ago

Other people invade other countries and not get punished, but people caring to make knowledge more available (especially to not rich people) get punished.

I know that's the system working as expected, but ughh

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you need a quick heuristic "courts are the bad guys from Saturday morning cartoons". They are straight up the enemy of all things good.

Its not 100% correct, but you'll think about it 99% less and be right 98% as often

[-] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 60 points 4 months ago

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

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 4 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

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] hobovision@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 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

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago

same, like they could've just used a different pseudonym?

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 54 points 4 months ago

Do they have an onion address?

[-] Dhar@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 months ago
[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 12 points 4 months ago

For me I can’t connect to it

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 months ago
[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 19 points 4 months ago

Wow, they are really taking everything down.

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 9 points 4 months ago

No in this case it's called the hug of death.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 35 points 4 months ago

Are these the same people that refused to suspend Kiwi Farms and 8chan?

[-] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 29 points 4 months ago

The copyreich above all.

[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 months ago

For context, thepiratebay.org still works, which is crazy.

[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

This means war.

[-] Avenging5@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

just host it on tor?

[-] BoblinTheGoblin@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Is it accessible via IP or Tor?

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