💯 and their FAQ also mentions 3 other information channels:

• https://matrix.to/#/#annas:archivecommunication.org (matrix)
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive (reddit)
• https://t.me/+D0zemuNzEdgyOGVk (telegram)

Given how things work, they should have created another "brand" just for the spotify breach (e.g. Audio Hub). Annas Archive was just going so well...

Nah. AA themselves say they don't think it is due to Spotify. And it would be too quick, they say they were kicked based on a legal request, hardly something you expect to be carried out in, what, two weeks at most?

Book publishers are unlikely to be any less ruthless than Spotify. Remember how they wanted to fuck over Internet Archive (and partly succeeded). This is more likely to be their doing.

I2P

For me I can’t connect to it

If you need a quick heuristic "courts are the bad guys from Saturday morning cartoons". They are straight up the enemy of all things good.

Its not 100% correct, but you'll think about it 99% less and be right 98% as often

It was very much complementary to their already existing archival goals.

I think they felt they had good enough opsec and went for it, which is really based IMO

They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there's a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.

Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they'd just continued with their existing archival efforts. That's why, when I found I wasn't able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.

Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what's bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used

same, like they could've just used a different pseudonym?

The copyreich above all.

That's not how top level domains work... You need to look into ICANN. As far as I can tell, what's happening here is that the archive domain is hosting content that is copyright protected. The registration service of that domain will have been served a lawsuit by the owners of that copyright protected material. What normally happens after that? Is the registration service contacts the domain owner and tries to work something out. If that fails, then the domain registration service will suspend the domain registration.

I am not bringing copyright law into this beyond the basics and I'm not arguing the morality of either side of this.

Fun fact anyone can start a new TLD if you have the appropriate resources.

https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en

If you haven't seen it, this project is pretty cool. https://opennic.org. It does basically what you describe. A completely alternative stack to the one managed by ICANN. In no way seamless to set up use but people are trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNIC

Like ENS or TOR?

Thnx!

No. https://annas-archive.li/faq#mirrors