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> In recent weeks we’ve seen increased attacks on our mission. A pretty rich thing to say when your mission is piracy. I'm not against piracy at all, quite th
by iLoveOncall 1y ago
> In recent weeks we’ve seen increased attacks on our mission.
A pretty rich thing to say when your mission is piracy.
I'm not against piracy at all, quite the contrary, but this is quite laughable.
- sandspar 1y agoIt's an interesting peek into their milieu. For those in the club, the statement might seem self-evident.
- mavamaarten 1y agoRight? I mean I love what they're doing. But at the same time please, stop claiming to be holy angels trying to build an archive for historical purposes. You're a terrific piracy site, period.
- vixen99 1y agoWhat is it then that they love doing? Is there a long-term thrill in being a piracy site? I don't think so. No truth in the angel story but they do say "it aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form".
- iLoveOncall 1y ago> What is it then that they love doing? They're earning a fuck ton of money, that's what they're doing. Just like megaupload back in the days, they sell premium accounts for fast download speeds and no queue.
- IAmBroom 1y agoIf you do good, and also make money doing it, are you somehow bad?
- kelnos 1y agoI mean, you don't personally know any of them, do you? How could you possibly know what their motivations are? And even if their motivations are less than pure, I will 100% get behind the mission of preserving humanity's literary output. If that's the outcome, I don't care about their motivations.
- mistercheph 1y agoZoom out, annas archive and every incarnation of the shadow library that exists is like the library of alexandria, in 150 years the copyright holders of the hour will be meaningless, nobody will care who got monetized or whatever, the point will be that a small number of vigilantes preserved human knowledge for posterity, and not even a half-second of thought will be given to the "crimes" that were involved in doing so.
- Rotundo 1y agoPiracy is done with ships. Anna's is doing digital conservation, which is sorely needed in a rapidly changing world.
- dartharva 1y agoIt is literally bringing knowledge to several dis-privileged people across the world who would have otherwise not had any access to it. It's a work of the lord if there ever was any.