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A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction (torrentfreak.com)
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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.

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[–] Blueoaky@mander.xyz 3 points 12 minutes ago

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".

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 8 points 54 minutes ago

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.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 36 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why aren't they suing AI then?

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 17 points 1 hour ago

Because those companies can fight back, and besides, they went to college with the guys running them.

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 5 points 56 minutes ago

If they have money to sue, they must not be hurting too badly from piracy.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 28 minutes ago
  1. Go to Anna's Archive Wikipedia page
  2. Look at one of the 3 different urls published
[–] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 1 hour ago

Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

RIP to a real one. I read a lot of books because of Anna's.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 8 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

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.