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Anna's Archive will not be defeated.

#AnnasArchive #piracy #InternetFreedom #OpenAccess #ShadowLibraries

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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/

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

"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

In a new paper, Alexandra Elbakyan (the founder of #SciHub) distinguishes between four different types of “Black Open Access”:
· classic shadow libraries, e.g. Library Genesis;
· online literature-sharing communities;
· automatic tools for paywall circumvention, e.g. Sci-Hub;
· academic social networks, e.g. Academia.edu / Researchgate

She also suggests a colour spectrum to acknowledge the significance of these open access models: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202409.0197/v2

#OpenAccess #ShadowLibraries

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

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

The Library of Alexandra

"We travel to Kazakhstan to meet the mysterious woman behind it all and to find out what it takes to make everything we know about anything available to anyone anywhere, for free."
https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra

#SciHub #ShadowLibrary #ShadowLibraries #OpenAccess #elbakyan

1/2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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