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They have a 500k[1] reward for finding OPSEC failures, so I think they have the basics down.

[1]https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

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No way Anna’s archive has $500k
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Why not? Are they going to scam the person who completes the Google Books bounty for 200k?
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Extra? I thought they were clearly violating IP law to begin with. Unless I misunderstand this is "water is wet" territory (both the judgment as well as what Anna's Archive did).
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Extra, because with the piracy of music they bought into equation members of (and implicitly) the recording industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association...
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Water isn't wet, but it does "wet" other things. Wetness is the degree to which a liquid contacts and adheres to a solid surface, so it's makes no sense to say that water is wet.
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I do not see any law being violated by Anna's Archive in the slightest.
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Just because you disagree with a law doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. You anti copyright shills are exhausting... Why can't you try to attract people to your side to eventually instead effect some real change? Do you just take that much pleasure in being an edgelord that your cause be damned?
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Just use it to train / tune a LLM. Apparently, everything becomes legal if you only put the stuff into the right kind of software.

That's at least what many people like to argue here on HN.

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Anna's wants[1] companies to train on their data.

[1] https://annas-archive.gl/blog/ai-copyright.html

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hmm you are right, I too wish the same brother
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