The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to put up a defense, the publishers’ main goal appears to be to obtain an injunction that can apply further pressure on domain registrars and registries.
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
If you’re concerned about the site shutting down, seed some of their torrents from their site so that it’s easier to re-launch it if it happens
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.
Because those companies can fight back, and besides, they went to college with the guys running them.
They are? The suits from major publishers were all over the news when they were started in early 2025.
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 do that and risk actually losing, when you can go after the small guy and send a message to the plebs?
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.
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
But it’s fair use: I’m using it to train my AI (actual intelligence)
If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.
