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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by charcircuit on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:57PM (#46664895)
How does it take more than 24 hours to take these servers down when they obviously are violating copyright. It should only take a few phone calls to get them taken down.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by fragmede on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:10AM (#46664956)
Who do you call? The Internet police? Anna's Archive is hosted in countries that don't give a shit about US copyright laws. Pirate bay is back up, and they've been at it for decades.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by charcircuit on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:30AM (#46665326)
The traffic is getting here via another country who has signed a copyright treaty with the US. Just follow the packets.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by octoberfranklin on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:18AM (#46665520)
If you block the packets, people will just use a VPN.

The best you can hope for is something like the Great Firewall, which only works on normies.

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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by prussia on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:06AM (#46665789)
Sure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by octoberfranklin on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:19PM (#46672741)
preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about

Seriously?

Anna's Archive hosts ebooks and scholarly journal articles.

Not the kind of stuff your average Instagram Influencer (TM) is into.

I'd be utterly shocked if more than 1% of the population had ever used Anna's Archive. This isn't like Hollywood movie torrenting sites or IPTV sports streaming piracy. It's a long way from mainstream.

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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by prussia on Monday January 19, 2026 @03:24AM (#46676290)
Yes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition).

If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit of a tall mountain, for anyone to take, the authorities and "rights"holders will not give a damn. Convenience and scale matters, and that is why Anna's Archive is a target.

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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by charcircuit on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:16AM (#46666510)
In this scenario your VPNs would still need to find a ISP that would let them route packets out of that country. This means that instead of a legit VPN company you have to deal with cyber criminals to get such a VPN.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by allarm on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:05AM (#46675520)
Blocking traffic from a resource and blocking the whole country are two entirely different scenarios.
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Re:U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Troub... by thot_experiment on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:32AM (#46665918)
Thankfully the horrendous concepts of western intellectual property haven't been forced upon the entirety of the the human race. One of the silver linings of the current administration speedrunning the destruction of American hegemony is that the waning of our power will likely have positive effects in this regard.
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