14 stories tagged shadow-libraries, newest first.
80 points by TangerineDream | 37 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that an AI-assisted peer-reviewed paper on Z-Library cites a nonexistent TorrentFreak article and other unfindable sources.
669 points by darccio | 394 comments
Guest post on Anna's Blog claiming AI companies buy and destroy physical books for training data, urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.
527 points by Cider9986 | 834 comments
Anna's Archive blog guest post arguing AI companies are buying and destroying physical books for training, and urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.
486 points by Cider9986 | 274 comments
A GitLab issue from Anna's Archive offering a $200,000 bounty for obtaining Google Books' full book scans or similarly large collections of scanned books.
822 points by janandonly | 435 comments
Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, which addresses LLMs and crawlers and points them to bulk downloads instead of scraping past CAPTCHAs.
818 points by soheilpro | 371 comments
Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, addressed to LLMs, explaining the project's goals and pointing crawlers to bulk data downloads instead of CAPTCHA-protected pages.
578 points by CTOSian | 298 comments
TorrentFreak news article reporting that shadow library Anna's Archive lost its annas-archive.org domain after it was suspended and placed on serverHold status.
1656 points by vitplister | 551 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing a ~300TB torrent backup of Spotify metadata and music files, including 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files.
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
564 points by yamrzou | 62 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing the winners of its $10,000 bounty for visualizing the ISBN space and which books it has archived.
458 points by phiresky | 85 comments
Blog post describing a visualization of over 100 million books mapped by ISBN, made in response to an Anna's Archive challenge.
370 points by RyanShook | 125 comments
Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.
363 points by hn_acker | 97 comments
TorrentFreak article on a study finding that students, including Chinese postgraduates, use Z-Library to overcome expensive books and limited access to academic material.
485 points by janandonly | 88 comments
Homepage of Anna's Archive, a non-profit open-source, open-data search engine aggregating shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library.