[pilimi_anna]

Anna here. In some sense copyright is appearing to be beside the point, but for the exact same reason copyright holders are becoming more defensive, and trying to expand the scope of copyright. That's one of the reasons why this is such a critical window for preservation!

[glimshe]

You probably hear this a lot, but thank you for fighting the good fight and working towards advancing humanity. Your work is incredibly important.

[dtx1]

I am immensely curious about everything AA is doing but I guess all my questions better remain unanswered for the sake of the project. But perhaps, if you are interested, you might chose to answer some of them.

How are you holding up? Do you notice the persecutocutorial pressure on a day to day basis?

How is the Project being financed? How is the financing being protected from the legal pressures? Just having one petabyte of data somewhere is expensive. Are KYC an issue for you?

I would think that any large enough law enforcement would be able to take down not just your domains but also your servers. Why is it that enforcement seems to focus on domains not on server seizures?

What protective measures and backup plans do you have in place? Any Opsec tips to share for small time pirates?

[amy-petrik-214]

Anna's cousin, Amy ZLib here.

Anna is doing well, I cannot explicitly "out" her identity but let's say she does well for herself and in a quite safe and stable country. Financing again is a topic where she is strongly positioned but generally asks that people respect her privacy. She does work with a small team of engineers regarding distributed data storages, and is very open to people who want to be mirrors. A petabyte is nothing to her, perhaps a few dozen drives. Underlying system is known as "AAFLOW" I think of it as the next higher elevated version of bittorrent

KYC is not an issue for Anna, she prefers Chik-fil-A or Popeye's

Law enforcement typically focuses on domain seizure and not server seizures because a domain may trivially be pointed to a backup server, whereas it is non-trivial to point a million end-users to a new domain.

Anna doesn't wish to speak in great deal regarding protective measures and backup plans, but let's say there is person after person system after system, plan within plan, at the ready if anything should happen.

With regards to opsec tips for small time pirates, don't disclose anything personal on any social channels, or if you do, make it up. Generally it's best to have a labtop you purchased in cash in a non-traceable way, camera and microphone and bluetooth and wifi physically removed, and keep it in a farraday bag generally, but when you need internet access find a public access point. Anna usually runs a pringles can antenna a ways from a coffee shop in an old concrete structure, with a modded usb wifi dongle, but she tries to be random in terms of timing and location when she hits the internet. this type of opsec has served her well.

[dotancohen]

Thank you for all that you do.

In the fine article, "10,000" is mistakenly written as "1,0000".