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How does it take more than 24 hours to take these servers down when they obviously are violating copyright. It should only take a few phone calls to get them ta

How does it take more than 24 hours to take these servers down when they obviously are violating copyright. It should only take a few phone calls to get them taken down.

fragmede 10mo ago
Who do you call? The Internet police? Anna's Archive is hosted in countries that don't give a shit about US copyright laws. Pirate bay is back up, and they've been at it for decades.
- charcircuit 10mo ago
  The traffic is getting here via another country who has signed a copyright treaty with the US. Just follow the packets.
  - octoberfranklin 10mo ago
    If you block the packets, people will just use a VPN. The best you can hope for is something like the Great Firewall, which only works on normies.
    - prussia 10mo ago
      Sure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.
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      - octoberfranklin 10mo ago
        preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about Seriously? Anna's Archive hosts ebooks and scholarly journal articles. Not the kind of stuff your average Instagram Influencer (TM) is into. I'd be utterly shocked if more than 1% of the population had ever used Anna's Archive. This isn't like Hollywood movie torrenting sites or IPTV sports streaming piracy. It's a long way from mainstream.
        prussia 10mo ago
        Yes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition). If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit of a tall mountain, for anyone to take, the authorities and "rights"holders will not give a damn. Convenience and scale matters, and that is why Anna's Archive is a target.
    - charcircuit 10mo ago
      In this scenario your VPNs would still need to find a ISP that would let them route packets out of that country. This means that instead of a legit VPN company you have to deal with cyber criminals to get such a VPN.
      - allarm 10mo ago
        Blocking traffic from a resource and blocking the whole country are two entirely different scenarios.
thot_experiment 10mo ago
Thankfully the horrendous concepts of western intellectual property haven't been forced upon the entirety of the the human race. One of the silver linings of the current administration speedrunning the destruction of American hegemony is that the waning of our power will likely have positive effects in this regard.

How does it take more than 24 hours to take these servers down when they obviously are violating copyright. It should only take a few phone calls to get them taken down.

fragmede 10mo ago

Who do you call? The Internet police? Anna's Archive is hosted in countries that don't give a shit about US copyright laws. Pirate bay is back up, and they've been at it for decades.

charcircuit 10mo ago
The traffic is getting here via another country who has signed a copyright treaty with the US. Just follow the packets.
- octoberfranklin 10mo ago
  If you block the packets, people will just use a VPN. The best you can hope for is something like the Great Firewall, which only works on normies.
  - prussia 10mo ago
    Sure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.
    - deleted 10mo ago
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    - octoberfranklin 10mo ago
      preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about Seriously? Anna's Archive hosts ebooks and scholarly journal articles. Not the kind of stuff your average Instagram Influencer (TM) is into. I'd be utterly shocked if more than 1% of the population had ever used Anna's Archive. This isn't like Hollywood movie torrenting sites or IPTV sports streaming piracy. It's a long way from mainstream.
      - prussia 10mo ago
        Yes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition). If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit of a tall mountain, for anyone to take, the authorities and "rights"holders will not give a damn. Convenience and scale matters, and that is why Anna's Archive is a target.
  - charcircuit 10mo ago
    In this scenario your VPNs would still need to find a ISP that would let them route packets out of that country. This means that instead of a legit VPN company you have to deal with cyber criminals to get such a VPN.
    - allarm 10mo ago
      Blocking traffic from a resource and blocking the whole country are two entirely different scenarios.

thot_experiment 10mo ago

Thankfully the horrendous concepts of western intellectual property haven't been forced upon the entirety of the the human race. One of the silver linings of the current administration speedrunning the destruction of American hegemony is that the waning of our power will likely have positive effects in this regard.