I'm glad Anna's Archive, like sci-hub before, is hosted in the free world (A.K.A. the former Eastern block) so it can escape copyreich oppression and allow us all to access human knowledge and culture.
[2] In the very practical sense that certain texts end up lost because they're copyrighted but no one re-publishes them on time, so few or no copies remain in practice.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 19.9 ms ] threadA US judge.. Oh no. Prepare for tarriffs and invasion Anna!
It sounds like it's just metadata they scraped anyway?
I think it's a bit amazing and a bit embarrassing that western culture is being kept out of a kind of dark ages[2] by ex soviets, of all people.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
[2] In the very practical sense that certain texts end up lost because they're copyrighted but no one re-publishes them on time, so few or no copies remain in practice.