I posted previously about how Annas-Archive.org got taken down Annas-Archive.org no longer available.
Now it looks like the other domain that was still working (.se) has also been taken down. But Annas-archive.li is still working, though, and maybe others.
The working domains are apparently always listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna's_Archive.
Apparently all these take-downs are happening via a cloudflare subpoena: https://torrentfreak.com/publishing-giants-escalate-war-on-shadow-libraries-with-broad-cloudflare-subpoena/
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wonder what the real reason for this is
a few weeks ago they announced they managed to download a bunch of music from spotify. i suspect they kicked the hornet's nest with that one.
Where are they announcing this info?
on their blog
Ah....https://annas-archive.li/blog/
It mostly got on their radar again because Anthropic leeched from there, trained LLMs, and now makes tons of moneys off their models that were trained on Elsevier-gatekept knowledge.
Do they do scientific papers?
Yeah they own ScienceDirect and publications like The Lancet
Is there a reason why we cannot run these types of metadata indexers in a distributed fashion?
there's a page to get the torrents https://annas-archive.li/torrents
I'd like to know that myself.
How many have they got left?
Better get using while it's still there.