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fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.
by boombapoom 1y ago
fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.
- lysace 1y ago[flagged]
- gjsman-1000 1y ago> Information should be free I'm sick and tired of this misquote; as it was merely an observation of trends, and was never meant to be a moral maxim or mandate. If you truly believe information needs to be free as a moral mandate, share your company's source code first.
- danielPort9 1y agoI see it as “everyone deserves respect”. No need to overanalyse it. It’s one of those few things in life that are simply true, no proof needed.
- renewiltord 1y agoI see it as "Carthage must be destroyed". No need to nitpick it. We must destroy Carthage.
- Davidzheng 1y agowas the alternative for the pirate bay people jailtime?
- tzs 1y agoIf #1 is a reference to a famous quote from Steward Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, it's only part of the quote. The rest is relevant: > On the one hand you have—the point you’re making Woz—is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable—the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other He stated later more succinctly: > Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away
- thaumasiotes 1y agoThat's not a real tension. There is no case where the inherent value of some commodity keeps its price high despite easy availability. That's the point of the "diamonds in the desert" thought experiment. Inherent value provides a ceiling on the price of whatever it is. Availability also provides a ceiling on the price. If I give you two theorems that say C < 300 and also C < 10, why would you describe those as being "in tension" with each other?
- jonahx 1y agoThe tension arises because in some cases, at least for a while, the availability can be suppressed. Like when some expert releases an expensive ebook or video course "Secrets of X". Ofc many such books are scams, but assume for sake of argument the information is actually valuable. The initial buyers are motivated not to share it. It remains a scarce commodity for a while. But all it takes is one person to make a torrent, and the game is over. So there are two incentives -- one trying to keep it scarce, and the other trying to make it free.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoCopyright was created because we realized that it takes effort to put works together (in the original case it was educational information) but that distribution can be done without rewarding that initial effort. Which then results in the initial effort not happening. Which then ends up in a dumber, less intelligent, idea poor world without those works. Society agreed to copyright because of the social benefit of having people willing to put effort/expense into creating works. We're not talking zero value internet BS, but real works. People who create the works don't make them scarce, their distribution is infinitely scalable. They just make it so that they are compensated.
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- Ar-Curunir 1y agoPeople can do good things and bad things simultaneously. Unless me supporting the good things directly enables also the bad things, I don't see a reason to throw out the good thing.
- crowcroft 1y agoWhat are social security numbers if not just another bit of information that wants to be free? Or perhaps you are saying that people that have an interest in the availability of particular information should have some control on that information's freedom...
- ethbr1 1y agoThe idea that any widely transmitted identifiers' confidentiality should be its primary method of security is asinine. The failure of any exploit regarding SSNs or the like is not on the offending party, but on each using party's failure to implement even a modicum of actual security.
- travoc 1y agoFYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.
- ndriscoll 1y agoA widely transmitted identifier that tons of organizations need to ask you for taxes is not secret. It's used to precisely identify who you claim to be. It's your username. There's not much to say about also treating it as your password except that it's asinine. It's like treating your first name/last name as a secret password.
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- 9dev 1y ago> They are literally burning down giant commercial buildings in Europe. Who is, and which buildings?
- lysace 1y agohttps://investigations.news-exchange.ebu.ch/playing-with-fire-are-russias-hybrid-attacks-the-new-european-war/ https://investigations.news-exchange.ebu.ch/playing-with-fir...
- Mistletoe 1y agoCan you expand more on any links between Russia and Anna’s? I’m not joining the downvote brigade on this one without asking.
- Koshkin 1y ago> the last good things Last but not least?
- akudha 1y agoI am curious how they’re funded. How they are able to stay online. Surely there must be people, governments etc with deep pockets that would want to take them down?
- jampekka 1y agoYou can donate to get access to faster download mirrors. I'd guess this is the main source of their revenue. https://annas-archive.org/donate https://annas-archive.org/donate
- notpushkin 1y agoI suppose it could also be their enterprise users, though there’s not a lot of info on this aspect of their activity.
- glimshe 1y agoCan you donate to them without someone claiming you're donating money to a criminal enterprise and getting you in trouble? I mean, without using bitcoins
- sMarsIntruder 1y agoYou can buy Amazon gift cards using bitcoin lighting to add another layer (actually 2) of paranoia :)
- solidsnack9000 1y agoAllegedly, some companies with deep pockets have paid them for access to their collection. The collection turns out to be useful for training LLMs.
- tkel 1y agoSource on this claim? All their torrents are released publicly. Why would "companies with deep pockets" need to pay them?