Is hosting all that stuff even legal? I mean, they’re not making any money off of it, but they’re still a “piracy” hub. How have they survived this long?
It’s very illegal. iirc it was created by a group called “Pirate Library Mirror” after the guy that runs z-library got arrested, so I assume they’re taking anonymity seriously to avoid arrest.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but they only index shadow libraries and do not host any files themselves (unless you count the torrents). So, you don’t need 900+ TB of storage to create a mirror.
The selection is literally all books that can be found on the internet.
bigger than zlib or project Gutenberg?
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I imagine a couple of terabytes at the very least, though, I could be underestimating how many books have got deDRMed so far.
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Girl, what? No wonder they’re having trouble hosting their archive. Does Anna’s Archive host copyrighted content as well or is all that copyleft?
They host academic papers and books, most of them are copyrighted contents. They recently got in trouble for scraping a book metadata service to generate a list of books that hasn’t been archived yet: https://torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-accuses-annas-archive-of-hacking-worldcat-stealing-2-2-tb-data-240207/
They index, not host, no? (Unless you count the torrents, which are distributed)
Is hosting all that stuff even legal? I mean, they’re not making any money off of it, but they’re still a “piracy” hub. How have they survived this long?
No, it’s not.
They’ve survived by making themselves hard to identify and shut down. And as we can see here, by creating redundancies.
It’s very illegal. iirc it was created by a group called “Pirate Library Mirror” after the guy that runs z-library got arrested, so I assume they’re taking anonymity seriously to avoid arrest.
The archive includes copyrighted works. Often multiple copies of each work, across different formats.
According to their total dataset size excluding duplicates, over 900 TB
Sure, that’s a bit more than $65.000 per year with Backblaze.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but they only index shadow libraries and do not host any files themselves (unless you count the torrents). So, you don’t need 900+ TB of storage to create a mirror.
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You run a petabyte Synology at home?
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I’m guessing you’re talking GBs?
They put a link in with the total…
Total Excluding duplicates 133,708,037 files 913.1 TB
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That’s awesome - how many drives and of what sizes do you have? Also why synology instead of higher enterprise grade solution at this point?
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wait what? how expensive is it to buy and run? is it practical at all, what are the common snags? always wanted to get into doing some archiving.
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You should write a will instructing your family to send those disks to the internet archive for preservation if something happened to you.
I guess more than 5?