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How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive (annas-blog.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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" I run Anna’s Archive, the world’s largest open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. Our goal is to make knowledge and culture readily accessible, and ultimately to build a community of people who together archive and preserve all the books in the world ... In this article I’ll show how we run this website, and the unique challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status, since there is no “AWS for shadow charities”."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not easy. I see something along the lines of:

Tax the rich (we should do that anyway)
Introduce a UBI (universal basic income), which we need if automation increases
Artists don't need to make money with their art amymore
Art is free
Good™️ artists can still earn more via comissions

I have the — for some quite radical — take that knowledge should be free, labor should be paid. Anything that can be shared/copied without anshy cost should be open to be used by anyone.