>>1389028
Once i upgrade storage and get better internet i will be seeding this 24/7, big fan

Wikipedia has a decent article on Anna's Archive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

Top paragraph:

> Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGen), among other sources. It calls itself "the largest truly open library in human history", and has said it aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form". It claims not to be liable for downloads of copyrighted works, since the site indexes metadata but does not directly host any files, instead linking to third-party downloads. It has nonetheless faced government blocks and legal action from copyright holders and publishing trade associations...

>>1389064
So what's the relationship between torrents, hosting services and annas archive?

Annas Archive does the bookkeeping, the hosters proxy/cache the books from torrents and the torrents are the backup of data?

>>1389160
By seeding it in torrent form you can ensure that AI companies are able to use it as training data. No they will not seed back. Their services are very valuable and they will give you a limited free sample of them that you can use without payment. That's a nice gesture for this act of kindness on your part.

>>1389165
when hosting data for everyone, that includes le bad guys too, yes, thankfully seeding is basically free

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

>>1389028
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339
Kill all pornthreads on /t/ and help backing up Annas Archive anons.

>>1389550
Anna's archive has been blocked in my country for some time now.. I need a vpn or an archive site to be able to read that link.. feelsbadman.jpg
https://archive.ph/2025.12.21-050644/https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html#selection-4121.0-4121.38

>>1389621
>I need a vpn
Or install Tor browser
https://www.torproject.org/download/

>>1389028
>how many TBs can you help seed?

my brother in christ I have a laptop from 2017 that has about 300mb free at any moment.

I heard you can download by genre? Where is that?

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There is some really interesting data on their announcement page.

>>1389028
bump

>>1389028
Worthy cause.

>>1389028
>annas-archive.org
Is the website down?

>>1390644
Yes. You have to use one of the backup domains now. .su still worked for me.

>>1390644
Seems to be, this stinks...

>>1390644
We have been warning you guys for a while now. All of them are under attack. Libgen was literally killed.

>>1389621
The .org died but there are other TLD's you can use that work. There seems to be a digi-war going on at the moment, but more sites will pop up and more TLD's will be bought. The cat and mouse game will continue as always.

https://open-slum.pages.dev/

>>1389165
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders-250206/

This is why I don't support these efforts even though I easily could. I think this does more harm than good. This is the one case where I'd even encourage you to hit and run these torrents yourself. Collecting all this data is unfeasible for most but get what you want and keep it safe offline. The preservation of this content is more important than it's distribution.

>>1389028
>>1390644
>>1390763
>>1391320
>>1391324
Burned out by corporations for LLM data sets
https://fixupx.com/aakashgupta/status/2014195808405766460
rip in penis. Not long until the other sites are shut down by seething publishers

>>1389028

are you sure about that i am in read thousand title name range not read those books

>>1392022
Fuck this shit, at least as far as academic and historical things go. I don't care about fiction modern slop as much, they can remove that, but I hate when knowledge is stifled like that.

https://annas-archive.li/dyn/torrents.json has some of the spotify magnets

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/

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SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor

https://open-slum.org/

>>1393426
who gives a shit about this anyways? Its all lossy mega compressed garbage. And 99% of the music is all shit normie music that no one with any taste listens to. Nobody is going to download this and scroll through it looking for shit to listen to. There is literally ZERO utility or purpose for this torrent to even exist

Any faggi/t/ on this board already has every album by their favorite artists in perfect lossless cd or web rips in the first place

even most of the media on annas archive is low quality garbage barely useful for anything

>>1394553
The redtopia dump is much more of interest than that crap

>>1394553
>even most of the media on annas archive is low quality garbage barely useful for anything

AA books are mostly fine. Largest collection of the 1. smallest possible epubs and 2. a large selection of 100MB+ of scanned books as PDFs.

AA is shit if you want 3. High quality scans of books with images beyond 100MB. If every picture is 300DPI the files would be huge. Or 4. digital (not scanned) books with >30MP pictures where also the files would be huge.

In my view 3 & 4 are niche interest that are hard to find ANYWHERE at all.

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>The Library of Alexandria was burned to human foolishness
>Now its modern equivalent is being burned albeit slowly again
>Because of foolishness masquerading as greed which is even WORSE

>>1394528
useful
>>1394635
FUCK THEM

>>1394635
>foolishness masquerading as greed
just say jews

>>1389028
where the fuck would I even get 760TB spare drive space from?

>>1395296
That's what I'd like to know.
Despite the immense amount of effort here, and the storage, it's still not even close to most stuff they could capture.
Imagine how much bigger it could be.
With how expensive storage drives are getting these days, yeah it's getting kinda spicy there, those drive prices are surging.

As it is right now, we have small samples of preserved culture between average people in the ancient worlds, scattered across various cultures and eras.
As someone that generally likes reading random old shit like this, I would like to preserve current era stuff for the future as well. Even the shit stuff.
But sometimes it makes me wonder if it is worth the incredible effort in trying to preserve stuff at the highest possible quality when even now we have mere slices of shit from, say, Ancient Egypt, and in terrible quality at the best of times from a long dead language, but we still got some overall message from it, daily life, culture, stuff like that.
Worse yet, I bet if compression was used project-wide, it would be vastly smaller, but obviously far fucking worse to actually distribute and contribute specific chunks of data you care about, etc.
It's a very tricky situation. Very rock and hard place kinda scenario.
Keep the highest quality possible - respects the efforts of those people.
Lower the quality to just barely decent enough to figure out details - far lower sizes but comes at the expense of misrepresenting their efforts.
I've watched Shaun of the Dead at 1fps and sub "100p" on /f/ in under 10MB and it still got something across, but at the same time it lost a LOT of the action, fundamentally changing the media.

Transformer AI is highly efficient at compressing data, but they are shitty at re-creating them due to poorly tagged data and the fact most Transformer AI is probabilistic, not deterministic.
Trying to run a Transformer AI model fully deterministic is extremely expensive, so hallucinations out the wazoo!