Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 7 months ago (1 child)

💯 and their FAQ also mentions 3 other information channels:

https://matrix.to/#/#annas:archivecommunication.org (matrix)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive (reddit)
https://t.me/+D0zemuNzEdgyOGVk (telegram)

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[–] trk@aussie.zone 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

https://t.me/+D0zemuNzEdgyOGVk (telegram)

Rip in peace

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 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.

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[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 10 points 7 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.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 126 points 7 months ago (2 children)

DEFINITELY due to the Spotify breach.

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

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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...

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 11 points 7 months ago

Anna's Audio was right there, man.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 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.

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[–] vpol@feddit.uk 100 points 7 months ago (1 child)

We need new internet.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 7 months ago

I2P

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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 67 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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 7 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

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[–] 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

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[–] 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

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[–] 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

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[–] 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?

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[–] 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.

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[–] 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