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In this case open-source does not mean only open-source books. Anna's Archive is a shadow library, they also maintain a pirate library mirror. So you can think
by vidyesh 3y ago
In this case open-source does not mean only open-source books. Anna's Archive is a shadow library, they also maintain a pirate library mirror. So you can think of them like an anarchist(?) archivist?
I think only the high-speed direct downloads require logging-in but other downloads and torrents are freely available.
- mrweasel 3y agoOkay, but isn't Project Gutenberg the true open source library, without the risk of me misunderstanding the licensing and violating copyright?
- ddeck 3y agoThe Internet Archive might be better example, depending on your definition of open. They have over 4 million books archived. I believe Project Gutenberg have around 70k. The Internet Archive include books still in copyright, which can be read by "borrowing" them virtually. https://archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks https://archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks
- mdp2021 3y ago> which can be read by "borrowing" Reminder: based on the idea that "if the library holds a physical copy it can lend an electronic view over it, respecting the same principle of the physical object, i.e. one user per item per period (i.e. one user per use instance)". Such principle is being fought.
- TechBro8615 3y agoViolating copyright is the whole point. The contention of this archive seems to be that Project Gutenberg is in fact not "open," because it's constrained by its adherence to copyright laws.
- jug 3y agoWeird definition of "open source". "It's open because we violated copyright and uploaded it in the open." Call it what it is. Pirated books. People that must use them still will but at least now we'll know what it is.
- Takennickname 3y ago> Call it what it is. Pirated books. You're missing the entire argument. The argument here is that they are not pirates, because copyright is stifles the spread of knowledge and should therefore be completely abolished. Whether you get it or not is something different all together. But that's what people are fighting for.
- gjvc 3y agothis is a good example of the difference between "understanding" and "agreement" :-)
- agumonkey 3y agoWhere do they discuss the topic ? as much I loved zlib .. I cannot forget that copyrights is what allows knowledge to be spread most of the time. If people couldn't at least live from their writing (not even make a big profit) how else would book emerge ?
- Takennickname 3y agoI would argue that the most popular books in the world are all uncopyrighted. Bible Quran Shakespeare I'm sure many others
- abeppu 3y agoSomewhere, a publisher is giggling as they change the constants in problems in an otherwise unchanged first semester physics book with an upcoming new edition. I think a lot of good books never pay their authors much, at least in proportion to the effort that goes into researching and writing them. Scihub was also violating copyright, but academic paper authors don't get paid by publishers; they the journals. Lots of intellectual labor goes into producing a good where the author would much rather you read it without paying than buy it but not read it. This is all to say, the publishers, who are perhaps no longer needed in the 21st century, are sales motivated, but there's at least a substantial category of authors who are not.
- mdp2021 3y agoProject Gutenberg has been fought (censored, blocked, sued) by statal entities, like germany and italy - it may happen because of occasional improper insertions, or because of local legislation inconsistent with that which the Project references, or because of bestiality of the attacker.
- vidyesh 3y agoThe idea of a shadow library is to disseminate knowledge to everyone, to provide easy access to readily available content which is made inaccessible through paywalls, copyright, or other similar barriers. At inception, these databases were created to make academic content freely available which generally does not compensate the original publishers. But now it has been expanded to support the knowledge for free movement. The legal status is questionable as creators can provide their own content to such libraries but their publishers might not agree to it.
- suction 3y ago[dead]
- _shadi 3y agohow different is it then from libgen?
- vidyesh 3y agoApart from the content they add it also include other shadow libraries like sci-hub, zlib, libgen and some more[1] [1] https://annas-archive.org/datasets https://annas-archive.org/datasets
- foobarbecue 3y agoAn anarchivist!!
- TeddyDD 3y agoI don't get why there is a DMCA form: https://annas-archive.org/copyright https://annas-archive.org/copyright
- pilimi_anna 3y agoFree high-quality metadata
- lostmsu 3y agoWasting resources of copyright owners?