#shadowlibraries — Public Fediverse posts

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/08/nvidia-dismisses-copyright-suit-ai-training-pirated-books-xcxwbn/

Nvidia Fights Copyright Suit Over AI Training Data

#AI #NVIDIA #Semiconductors #AITraining #FairUse #AIModels #CopyrightInfringement #FairUseDoctrine #BigTech #ShadowLibraries #Copyright #Piracy #AnnasArchive

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/08/nvidia-dismisses-copyright-suit-ai-training-pirated-books-xcxwbn/

Nvidia Fights Copyright Suit Over AI Training Data

#AI #NVIDIA #Semiconductors #AITraining #FairUse #AIModels #CopyrightInfringement #FairUseDoctrine #BigTech #ShadowLibraries #Copyright #Piracy #AnnasArchive

Don't the major book publishers realize that each court injunction and seizure incentivizes book pirates to distribute books using more sophisticated file sharing technologies that are resistant to censorship and surveillance?
#books #piracy #copyright #bookpublishers #copyrightinfringement #shadowlibraries #bookpiracy #filesharing #bookdownloads #writers #bittorrent #annasarchive #libgen #zlibrary #tor #i2p #privacy #censorship #surveillance

Don't the major book publishers realize that each court injunction and seizure incentivizes book pirates to distribute books using more sophisticated file sharing technologies that are resistant to censorship and surveillance?
#books #piracy #copyright #bookpublishers #copyrightinfringement #shadowlibraries #bookpiracy #filesharing #bookdownloads #writers #bittorrent #annasarchive #libgen #zlibrary #tor #i2p #privacy #censorship #surveillance

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]rg/t/3317982

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]rg/t/3317982

So Anna's Archive is trying to cut a deal with LLM companies for scraping.

I then saw someone complaining about how "copyright stealing LLM companies" are beating up on "poor little" sites like Anna's by stealing their content. Um, wtf?

Square that fucking circle for me. Is it only copyright infringement when the LLMs do it?

LOL

#copyright #llms #shadowlibraries #annasarchive #copyrightinfringement

So Anna's Archive is trying to cut a deal with LLM companies for scraping.

I then saw someone complaining about how "copyright stealing LLM companies" are beating up on "poor little" sites like Anna's by stealing their content. Um, wtf?

Square that fucking circle for me. Is it only copyright infringement when the LLMs do it?

LOL

#copyright #llms #shadowlibraries #annasarchive #copyrightinfringement

Publishing Giants Escalate War on ‘Shadow Libraries’ With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena

https://torrentfreak.com/publishing-giants-escalate-war-on-shadow-libraries-with-broad-cloudflare-subpoena/

#shadowlibraries #DMCAsubpoena #Anti-Piracy #publishers #Elsevier #DMCA

Publishing Giants Escalate War on ‘Shadow Libraries’ With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena

https://torrentfreak.com/publishing-giants-escalate-war-on-shadow-libraries-with-broad-cloudflare-subpoena/

#shadowlibraries #DMCAsubpoena #Anti-Piracy #publishers #Elsevier #DMCA

TikTok Ban Deadline Extended Again; UK Conference Tackles AI and Piracy: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

I had approached filing the end-of-week news with the kind of trepidation that seems to come around on a regular cycle—a cycle that lasts as long as the latest TikTok ban deadline. But sure enough, as I sat down to…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/tiktok-ban-deadline/

#AIinPublishing #copyrightenforcement #Mastodonscrapingban #shadowlibraries #TikTokBan
@indieauthors

TikTok Ban Deadline Extended Again; UK Conference Tackles AI and Piracy: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

I had approached filing the end-of-week news with the kind of trepidation that seems to come around on a regular cycle—a cycle that lasts as long as the latest TikTok ban deadline. But sure enough, as I sat down to…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/tiktok-ban-deadline/

#AIinPublishing #copyrightenforcement #Mastodonscrapingban #shadowlibraries #TikTokBan
@indieauthors

39.95€ for a 9 pages long 51 year old computer science paper (Finkel on Quad Trees, 1974).

WHAT A GREAT DEAL.

This is why Alexandra Elbakyan should win a Nobel or a Saviour of Mankind medal or something.

More on that here:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library.

#alexandraelbakyan #elbakyan #sciencepublishing #scihub #shadowlibraries #shadowlibrary

Also on:

• https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html.
• https://kakafarm.codeberg.page/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html.

"This dissertation examines the dynamics of Black Open Access, a pirate-driven phenomenon, addressing inequities in academic publishing through shadow libraries and text piracy."
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1953321&dswid=1680 📖
Zakayo Kjellström (Umeå University): "Black open access: shadow libraries and text piracy"
#piracy #openaccess #shadowlibraries #mediapiracy

"This dissertation examines the dynamics of Black Open Access, a pirate-driven phenomenon, addressing inequities in academic publishing through shadow libraries and text piracy."
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1953321&dswid=1680 📖
Zakayo Kjellström (Umeå University): "Black open access: shadow libraries and text piracy"
#piracy #openaccess #shadowlibraries #mediapiracy

Zakayo Kjellström:
"Patterns of piracy: Sci-Hub and Sweden 2011–2018"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2025.2482459?src=exp-la#abstract
#piracy #shadowlibraries

Zakayo Kjellström:
"Patterns of piracy: Sci-Hub and Sweden 2011–2018"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2025.2482459?src=exp-la#abstract
#piracy #shadowlibraries

@dalonso

Funny, because MIT Press, like most publishers, do even worse to start with. Let's say you want to publish in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:

"By your signature below, you hereby grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article."

Ah, they want my copyrights. OK then I suppose they'll pay me for that? No:

"An APC of $1000 is assessed by JoCN for every accepted manuscript".

With that sum I could buy more equipment for our research.

So MIT want me to *pay them* to *give them* my copyrights.

And do MIT Press pay their reviewers for their review work? – Guess the answer...

What we need is a successful action on the part of the academic community to shut down these leeches of work and money.

Long live LibGen!

#libgen #shadowlibraries #copyright #copyleft #academia #scientificpublishing

Academic papers cannot be pirated, because academic research is paid by and therefore owned by the public. There, I said it.

#LibGen and other #ShadowLibraries are just cutting out the rent-seekers, a.k.a. Elsevier and the rest.

Books are a different story, though. But as always, there is a big BUT: orphaned works.

Academic papers cannot be pirated, because academic research is paid by and therefore owned by the public. There, I said it.

#LibGen and other #ShadowLibraries are just cutting out the rent-seekers, a.k.a. Elsevier and the rest.

Books are a different story, though. But as always, there is a big BUT: orphaned works.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem .. "Many in the academic world have argued that publishers have brought this type of piracy on themselves, by making it unnecessarily difficult and expensive to access research." #llm #ai #libgen #scihub #shadowlibraries https://archive.ph/gxOL2

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem .. "Many in the academic world have argued that publishers have brought this type of piracy on themselves, by making it unnecessarily difficult and expensive to access research." #llm #ai #libgen #scihub #shadowlibraries https://archive.ph/gxOL2

"Beyond LibGen: The Role of Librarians in the Post-Shadow Library Era" https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2025/03/beyond-libgen-role-of-librarians-in.html #LibGen #ShadowLibraries

"Beyond LibGen: The Role of Librarians in the Post-Shadow Library Era" https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2025/03/beyond-libgen-role-of-librarians-in.html #LibGen #ShadowLibraries

we took copies, but we didn't share .. quite a defense .. #shadowlibraries #copyright #copyleft https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

we took copies, but we didn't share .. quite a defense .. #shadowlibraries #copyright #copyleft https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

Me pasan una página chula:
https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/

Es una biblioteca fantasma de textos mantenida por bibliotecarios amateurs. La mayoría parece ser filosofía y política (¿con un énfasis en marxismo?), pero hay cientos de miles.

Muy fan, sobre todo por la parte de catalogación y tageado de textos, que es la parte más de 'biblioteca' que le faltaba a otras shadow libraries (como Anna's Archive).

#memoryoftheworld #shadowlibraries #biblootecas #libros

It seems you can #download #books and magazines for free from the #internet, once you are big enough.

»details around the #torrenting were murky until yesterday, when #Meta's unredacted #emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 #terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and #LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."«

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

#AnnasArchive #ZLibrary #ShadowLibraries

Faced with multi-million dollar lawsuits, large U.S. companies are no longer eager to work with Anna’s Archive. However, AI teams in other countries are less reluctant, and that creates tension. China and Japan, for example, already have AI and archival exceptions.

Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? #TorrentFreak #shadowlibraries #copyrightreform #LLMs

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/

Faced with multi-million dollar lawsuits, large U.S. companies are no longer eager to work with Anna’s Archive. However, AI teams in other countries are less reluctant, and that creates tension. China and Japan, for example, already have AI and archival exceptions.

Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? #TorrentFreak #shadowlibraries #copyrightreform #LLMs

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/

Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? * TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/

#ShadowLibraries #AnnasArchive #ai #LLM #DeepSeek

Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? * TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/

#ShadowLibraries #AnnasArchive #ai #LLM #DeepSeek

I’ve been thinking lately (always a mistake) about all the cultural works to which we don't have access. Everything removed from streaming; everything locked behind DRM so that most libraries and archives won't have copies which can redundantly survive disruption. Sometimes I get real sad about the future readers and historians and others who just won't be able to find copies of the incredible things made during the current digital dark age.

As ever, I try to let this radicalize me rather than lead me into despair. I know that there are lots of horrors worth raging against, but this is one I feel well-positioned to work against. It's low-stakes enough that I won't feel self-loathing if I burn out or need to take a break. It's no secret that I like to read and organize books so this is a topic close to my heart and one which can bring me joy and allow me to share it with those around me too. There is a fair bit of tech nerd stuff to it, enough that I have an opportunity to learn & practice new things, but not so much that I’m totally out of my depth. And there are plenty of communities out there to help and share strategies.

But the big thing I see missing from my understanding and many of the conversations about shadow libraries and unauthorized archivism is the social and professional practice of librarianship rather than mechanical practice of data storage. I don't have space to go to library school, but I could definitely stand to read (and archive) introductory books on the topic, or take an online class. Friends who know: what are some of the better places to get started with an introduction to library & information science and archive science?

#libraries #librarian #archivist #archives #archivism #archivist #libraryScience #informationScience #archiveScience #culture #repositories #dataHoard #archiving #piracy #unauthorizedArchives #guerillaArchives #shadowLibraries #digiPres #digitalPreservation

I’ve been thinking lately (always a mistake) about all the cultural works to which we don't have access. Everything removed from streaming; everything locked behind DRM so that most libraries and archives won't have copies which can redundantly survive disruption. Sometimes I get real sad about the future readers and historians and others who just won't be able to find copies of the incredible things made during the current digital dark age.

As ever, I try to let this radicalize me rather than lead me into despair. I know that there are lots of horrors worth raging against, but this is one I feel well-positioned to work against. It's low-stakes enough that I won't feel self-loathing if I burn out or need to take a break. It's no secret that I like to read and organize books so this is a topic close to my heart and one which can bring me joy and allow me to share it with those around me too. There is a fair bit of tech nerd stuff to it, enough that I have an opportunity to learn & practice new things, but not so much that I’m totally out of my depth. And there are plenty of communities out there to help and share strategies.

But the big thing I see missing from my understanding and many of the conversations about shadow libraries and unauthorized archivism is the social and professional practice of librarianship rather than mechanical practice of data storage. I don't have space to go to library school, but I could definitely stand to read (and archive) introductory books on the topic, or take an online class. Friends who know: what are some of the better places to get started with an introduction to library & information science and archive science?

#libraries #librarian #archivist #archives #archivism #archivist #libraryScience #informationScience #archiveScience #culture #repositories #dataHoard #archiving #piracy #unauthorizedArchives #guerillaArchives #shadowLibraries #digiPres #digitalPreservation

"Popular shadow library LibGen continues to face trouble. In addition to ongoing technical problems, a U.S. lawsuit resulted in several domain suspensions and seizures in recent weeks. To top it off, the shadow library was just added to Germany's pirate site blocking list, making it harder to access the remaining domains."

https://torrentfreak.com/domain-seizures-and-german-isp-blockade-add-to-libgens-troubles-241222/

#Copyright #IP #Libgen #Censorship #ShadowLibraries #A2K #RentSeeking

"Popular shadow library LibGen continues to face trouble. In addition to ongoing technical problems, a U.S. lawsuit resulted in several domain suspensions and seizures in recent weeks. To top it off, the shadow library was just added to Germany's pirate site blocking list, making it harder to access the remaining domains."

https://torrentfreak.com/domain-seizures-and-german-isp-blockade-add-to-libgens-troubles-241222/

#Copyright #IP #Libgen #Censorship #ShadowLibraries #A2K #RentSeeking

Visualizing All #ISBNs — $10k bounty by 2025-01-31 from #AnnasArchive https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html #shadowlibraries #books #ebooks

Visualizing All #ISBNs — $10k bounty by 2025-01-31 from #AnnasArchive https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html #shadowlibraries #books #ebooks

Dear cryptographers,
technologists and activists at #38C3

We would be glad to meet you at our workshop about the social impact of cryptography.
Let's exchange some ideas about shadow libraries or decentralisation and maybe even shape a vision for a better, more secure future!

See you at Congress! :D

#cryptography #shadowLibraries #decentralization

TIL: Someone coined the term Black Open Access

* Have we all forgotten about SciHub? (https://www.openresearch.wtf/have-we-all-forgotten-about-scihub/) summarizes the following preprint

* Alexandra Elbakyan: From Black Open Access to Open Access of Color: Accepting the Diversity of Approaches towards Free Science (https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202409.0197/v2)

#oa #schattenbibliotheken #shadowLibraries #openAccess #SciHub #BlackOpenAccess

Anna's Archive: "The critical window of shadow libraries"
https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
"Unfortunately, the advent of LLMs, and their data-hungry training, has put a lot of copyright holders on the defensive. Even more than they already were. Many websites are making it harder to scrape and archive, lawsuits are flying around, and all the while physical libraries and archives continue to be neglected.
We can only expect these trends to continue to worsen, and many works to be lost well before they enter the public domain.
We are on the eve of a revolution in preservation, but 'the lost cannot be recovered'. We have a critical window of about 5-10 years during which it’s still fairly expensive to operate a shadow library and create many mirrors around the world, and during which access has not been completely shut down yet."
#piracy #shadowlibraries #archives #librarians

#ShadowLibraries #Copyright #IP #OpenAccess #Piracy #FileSharing: "In 2024, the Internet Archive, a massively popular digital library nonprofit, removed more than 500,000 books from its Open Library catalog after losing its appeal for being sued by four U.S. publishers. The publishers argued that the Internet Archive’s lending policy used during the pandemic, in which it loaned multiple e-book copies of a single book at once, infringed on copyright law.

This decision has sparked discussions on the importance and ethics of access to information, bringing free library sites — like shadow libraries — into the spotlight.

A shadow library is an online database of free, readily available content like books, textbooks, academic articles or other digital media. It provides access to materials that may be normally inaccessible due to paywalls or copyright conditions."

https://builtin.com/articles/shadow-library

OCLC Says ‘What Is Known Must Be Shared,’ But Is Suing Anna’s Archive For Sharing Knowledge

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/23/oclc-says-what-is-known-must-be-shared-but-is-suing-annas-archive-for-sharing-knowledge/

#AnnasArchive #OCLC #WorldCat #ShadowLibraries

love it when the guest WiFi of a certain institution appears to block Sci-Hub but doesn't block Anna's Archive 😂

obligatory Gilmour quote: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

#ShadowLibraries

Nvidia Comes Out in Defence of the Shadow Libraries

https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-library-news/nvidia-comes-out-in-defence-of-the-shadow-libraries

#ShadowLibraries #Book3 #NeMo #nvidia #llm #copyright

Key Defendant in #AnnasArchive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement With the Site / #WorldCat Hack https://torrentfreak.com/key-defendant-in-annas-archive-lawsuit-denies-any-involvement-with-the-site-240416/ #shadowLibraries #zlib #freeKnowledge

FBI & Austria’s C4 Hit Z-Library With a Massive New Wave of #Domain #Seizures https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-austrias-c4-hit-z-library-with-a-massive-new-wave-of-domain-seizures-231108/ #zlib #shadowlibraries