But are they suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google?

Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they're going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren't even worth money anymore. They're out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.

This is just bullshit

I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna's

Elsevier? The company that makes money from public funded research? The one that does basically nothing and earns tons of money on the back of tax payers and free labor of authors, reviewers and editors.

Hopefully open access policies will bring an end to the exploitative business model of science "publisher".

So when Facebook wins their case that basically says "it's only copyright theft when ordinary people do it", Anna's Archive gets a pass, right? I'm assuming Facebook stole some of their training data from there, so fruit of the poisoned tree and all that jazz.

Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.

Why aren't they suing AI then?

obtain an injunction that can apply further pressure on domain registrars and registries.

Fuck the DNS.

We can just have a public page that has their IP address and connect directly using that.

Well, what now??

1. Go to Anna's Archive Wikipedia page
2. Look at one of the 3 different urls published

If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.

RIP to a real one. I read a lot of books because of Anna's.

But it’s fair use: I’m using it to train my AI (actual intelligence)

Couldn't they just go to Tor like zlib did?

Anna should claim they're training an LLM.

Probably a good time to mention Anna's is looking for people with extra hard drive space to help seed their torrent files, and are constantly looking for volunteers and donations to help out. If you even only have a little time or resources, any help is much appreciated to keep the archives collection alive. You can also find links to them their wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

AA has managed to stay up for surprisingly long. I hope they will continue to do so. There is a large amount of documents that are hard to find anywhere else there, not to mention all the university books that would cost a a fortune to buy for a poor student...

EDIT: typo.