[boombapoom]

fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.

[akudha]

I am curious how they’re funded. How they are able to stay online. Surely there must be people, governments etc with deep pockets that would want to take them down?

[jampekka]

You can donate to get access to faster download mirrors. I'd guess this is the main source of their revenue.

https://annas-archive.org/donate

[solidsnack9000]

Allegedly, some companies with deep pockets have paid them for access to their collection. The collection turns out to be useful for training LLMs.

[tzs]

If #1 is a reference to a famous quote from Steward Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, it's only part of the quote. The rest is relevant:

> On the one hand you have—the point you’re making Woz—is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable—the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other

He stated later more succinctly:

> Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away

[crowcroft]

What are social security numbers if not just another bit of information that wants to be free?

Or perhaps you are saying that people that have an interest in the availability of particular information should have some control on that information's freedom...

[9dev]

> They are literally burning down giant commercial buildings in Europe.

Who is, and which buildings?

[Ar-Curunir]

People can do good things and bad things simultaneously. Unless me supporting the good things directly enables also the bad things, I don't see a reason to throw out the good thing.

[Davidzheng]

was the alternative for the pirate bay people jailtime?

[Mistletoe]

Can you expand more on any links between Russia and Anna’s? I’m not joining the downvote brigade on this one without asking.

[gjsman-1000]

> Information should be free

I'm sick and tired of this misquote; as it was merely an observation of trends, and was never meant to be a moral maxim or mandate. If you truly believe information needs to be free as a moral mandate, share your company's source code first.

[Koshkin]

> the last good things

Last but not least?