Fuck the copyright mafia. All the fascist tech bros trained their enslopification brainrotting engines on anna's archive without anyone in power batting an eye but I guess burn everything because someone might want to listen to a song.
Fuck the copyright mafia. All the fascist tech bros trained their enslopification brainrotting engines on anna's archive without anyone in power batting an eye but I guess burn everything because someone might want to listen to a song.
If you don't own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.
Not when the vast majority of music rights holders are not the artists. Then it becomes a far more apt comparison.
When you rent something, you can share it. You rent a car, you can have passengers. You rent an apartment, you can have visitors. You rent a tool, you can lend it to your neighbour.
Then it's rent and not bought. That shitty excuse "akshualy you only bought the license, can't do what you want with it" is just abuse, because the buyer never gets clearly informed beforehand.
Earlier, I wasn't convinced this was due to Spotify because it happened incredibly quickly after the news about the scraping. Two weeks or so after AA's announcement, I'd hardly believe this sort of domain takedown can be carried out so swiftly, without the pirated material even being available on the site yet. Guess I was wrong, Spotify money can do miracles.
Glad they can throw money at this, but still pay artists dogshit
I feel like the whole Spotify thing was a misstep, I really dont know what to make of the whole thing
It was a big ball move for sure, but they should probably get their domain name game good now that they're doing stuff like this
It seems like overstretching the image of primarly-bookhunting piracy community. It could've been Anna's Playlist or something. Next we'd hear the FitGirl's name is Anya too.
Having a resource with a distinct field of interest and set of challenges, foes, arguments makes way more sense to me. In public perception, stealing a book and stealing a CD, or a movie are waslty different cases, and being book-first was their natural advantage in claiming the high horse in every discussion.
Like I dont get why they had to take credit for it. Like, fine, find an anonymous way to distribute and seed it initially, I just dont get why they felt like they needed to stamp their brand on it
I guess, besides stupid pride and challenging copyright fuckos, it also whitelists these uploads as coming from a reputable source, shows that's the community is alive and still kicking.
so how do I access it now?
Only the .org domain got seized. You can still use one of several backup domains:
While there, consider donating to help preserve the modern day Library of Alexandria!
I'm old, I like to own my music. I've never liked the idea of leasing music. I'm sure Spotify works wonderfully for some users, for me, Navidrome does everything I need of it.
That's cool. I just wanted to point out that Spotify was absolutely amazing when it came, it practically killed music torrenting. That you never jumped on board with it made you miss out on a fantastic service is all I say!
I've always just had to type a songname into a box and have it 10 seconds later. So Spotify gave absolutely no advantage in access to music.
The only semi-relevant new thing Spotify had was music recommendations, but I never cared about that. I've never had trouble finding good music organically, nor even the need to listen to new songs all the time.
So yeah, for me, it never was more convenient than what I had before and I don't think I've missed anything.
Piracy (and Anna's Archive)'s mission is to share information, especially culture, with everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for it and regardless of the geoblocks. Keeping the service hidden may benefit you and the few people that know about it, but it isn't the purpose of these sites. They felt they were protected enough, and they decided to take another step towards their objective, that's it.
In practice, nothing's gonna happen. They already have 4 different domains. Even if they managed to seize the servers and cancel every domain, all of Anna's Archive data is out there on public torrents, and their software is also FOSS. Anyone can make a mirror.
It isn't.
There's an Ars Technica article published yesterday or the day before about the book metadata scraping, and a representative for AA came right out and said they deliberately violate copyright law in most countries.
They believe, apparently, that collecting information is more valuable than being legal. In that case, they were ordered by a court to delete the data they scraped and they were not expected to comply (and have not done so). The .org suspension was thought to be related to that. Apparently it is not.
They believe, apparently, that collecting information is more valuable than being legal
Woah woah woah there cowboy! That's only ok when you're big tech, not when you do it against them. Sheesh, the nerve on this guy...
Yeah like it's fine if you're Meta (Facebook) and you pirate books to train AI, but if you say it's for human knowledge, so that a poor person in a third world country who might pull in $100 a month can still have access to books and music... they figure it's worth it if a bunch of spoiled Americans can also get it for free, as long as they seed.
I see, it's a good article: https://arstechnica.com/...
Told you
thanks for using Leebra!
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I will always side against the multi-billion dollar corporation.
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