Anna should claim they're training an LLM.
post
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
Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren't as manageable were the issue.
I just looked and thres lots of accessory torrents with 'small' archives (dozens of GB, not hundreds or heaven forbid TB)
Where could I find these torrents? Been looking, but found nothing
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.
I've gotten so much good stuff off there.
What are you guys getting from there? What kind of books/materials? Not to judge or spy on you (what a spy would say), but just genuinely curious.
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".
That can only happen if we stop giving a shit about impact factors (and remove it from legal hiring requierements in some countries) and when big name PIs stop giving excuses like 'I want my research to be read' as if that wouldn't happen in the journals that are more appropriate for the topic they publish in.
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.
- Go to Anna's Archive Wikipedia page
- 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.
You do realize that they don't actually know who runs the website, right? This is a lawsuit against a bunch of John Does. Nothing has changed, AA still exists, and likely will exist long after those lawyers doing the suing retire.
The way Anna's is hosted is awesome
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html


top 14 comments