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Yes, we'd happily host and torrent this.

We're grateful to Meta for helping seed and backup our torrents. The more copies the better. Thank you Meta, for helping preserve humanity's legacy! :)

Anna here. In some sense copyright is appearing to be beside the point, but for the exact same reason copyright holders are becoming more defensive, and trying to expand the scope of copyright. That's one of the reasons why this is such a critical window for preservation!

We'd welcome a Merge Request on our Gitlab for a Captcha implementation that is as good as Cloudflare but can be done without any external dependencies. If anyone cares enough to make that, we'll merge it!

Anna here. Thanks for the broadcast.

We're soon releasing another few hundred TB of completely unique materials (mostly books, also lots of magazines), so help with preserving all of this is sorely needed.

Much, much thanks to everyone who has contributed in one way or another already!

Anna here.

Libgen still uses torrents primarily for preservation. It also hosts on IPFS but that is more for access, and there are very few IPFS seeders.

We tried IPFS for a bit but found it not stable and usable enough for preservation purposes. We're closely watching IPFS development and hope that it will get there, since it would be wonderful to merge the preservation and access use cases in one system.

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Since the file is sorted you can binary-search it: https://annas-software.org/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/blo...

Appreciate the concern! We're not making any public statements about this lawsuit but rest assured we're fine.

Thanks everyone for your interest and support. As you can see, it's paramount that these torrents get seeded widely, to preserve this collection.

Part of it is already preserved fairly well, especially the Sci-Hub torrents and many of the Libgen torrents, but there is currently ~150TB with <4 seeders.

Head over to the "/torrents" page if you'd like to help!

It really is

Yes please, put us in touch by email. Or feel free to email me yourself and we can set up more secure comms from there. Thanks so much for everything you are doing as well!

For what it's worth, we also have millions of previously unreleased (in bulk) books in English, mostly non-fiction, that are available for torrent on our website.

High-speed access available for anyone who can do at-scale text extraction, or who can supply us with new collections.

Thank you!! Really appreciate it.

Please seed our torrents! If someone could contribute an automated torrent tracker that shows which torrents are most in need of seeding, we'd incredibly appreciate that (all our code is open source).

Yes.

What lawyers?

Appreciate your kind words. Our secret is that we just type really fast.

This is great to hear. We've put a decent amount of time into accessibility when building the site. If you have any feedback for us on this, that'd be very helpful!

Free high-quality metadata

Thanks. Added to our list of libraries and archives to look at.

Opsec + open source > gatekeeping

Anna here. Thanks for the support and feedback in these comments!

Good question! We did consider that, but the structure of the directories themselves conveyed a ton of information, so ultimately we thought that it was better to keep it like this.

The torrents are only for hard-core data hoarders. If you want just a few individual files, you can use Anna's Archive.

Not sure about Windows. On Linux we use https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount

Yeah, maybe not the best idea. And pointless, because we intend to release all torrents soon anyway (most are still processing)! Removed this part, thanks for the feedback.

Author here. Happy to answer questions. We're excited to finally be getting this collection out there!

I believe it is indeed our index. :) Hurray for open source and open data!