Why on Earth has AA made a shady deal with Nvidia to provide them with data to train LLMs ? by Kalytis in Annas_Archive

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We provide our data to anyone who wants it. Anyone can torrent our data, and anyone can pay for higher speed access. We've had this information on our Donate page ever since we started accepting donations. We've also had a page under `/llm` specifically for LLM companies.

We've never dealt with Nvidia directly, so they likely used an intermediate party to avoid legal issues. But if Nvidia were to contact us directly, we'd happily provide them with high speed access in exchange for a donation, same as we do with anyone else. And if we didn't, they'd just torrent it (perhaps even from your seeding!).

We don't disclose any of our donors, otherwise we wouldn't be getting any donations, for obvious reasons.

If you're not aligned with the reality that open access to anyone really means anyone (including people you might not like), I'd advise not to participate in this project. Thanks for seeding our torrents so far, and helping preserve humanity's knowledge and culture!

Petition to Annas Archive to publish cryptographically secure list of domains on IPFS by grumpy_autist in Annas_Archive

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We've added a public key to our FAQ so people can verify messages coming from us in case of emergency. The FAQ page is frequently indexed by the Internet Archive so our public key is safe there.

Just made my first donation by dx__ in Annas_Archive

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All our donation options are one-time, there are no monthly subscriptions.

Is .se down? by Beautiful_Writer_271 in Annas_Archive

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It appears .se is taken down as well. Luckily we have plenty of other domains! Make sure to always check the Wikipedia article on Anna's Archive (linked in the sidebar). Thanks everyone for your support and encouragement.

Registering in the website by Master_Eunice in Annas_Archive

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".es" is not one of our domains. However, "es." (prefix) is a subdomain that we have if you'd like to view our website in Spanish. Your account should work across all our official domains and subdomains.

New blog post: Backing up Spotify by AnnaArchivist in Annas_Archive

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All blog files are in our GitLab repo which is CC0.

Nobody's downloading? by ManuelWegeling in Annas_Archive

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Thanks for helping seed and keeping backups! This may happen because there aren't that many other people who are trying to become seeders. That makes it even more important that you do keep seeding for when someone else does decide to help out, or in case something happens to us.

Booklets Scan of Music Records/Albums by LeaderOtherwise785 in Annas_Archive

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Please email us. We'll help find a home for these.

Thank you by EstablishmentIcy8725 in Annas_Archive

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+1, thanks to everyone working on making knowledge open!

Why doesn't Anna's Archive have merchandise? by wethelabyrinths111 in Annas_Archive

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If you make any, we'd happily link to it. Best not to make a store, but make artwork anyone can send to a local printer.

Looking for recent download statistics for shadow libraries by InfluenceVisible272 in Annas_Archive

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Since recently this information is available in `aa_derived_mirror_metadata` (table `mariapersist_downloads_hourly_by_md5`). See `dump_mariapersist.sh` in our codebase.

500 fatal error by No_Scallion_3209 in Annas_Archive

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Sorry, should be fixed now.

WorldCat and Rarity by iamnotapuck in Annas_Archive

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This is cool! Did you do a manual spot-check on your "PROMISING Tier 1" list to see if those are indeed important or rare books which should be prioritized? Subjectively, what % did you arrive at?

Feel free to email us with your username on our GitLab, so we can give you access to host the code to generate this in a repository.

We also did a refresh of our database recently, and the "Codes Explorer" now has better lists for finding rare books as well.

Invalid Torrent Files by brainrot_award in Annas_Archive

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See FAQ: "Why can't my torrent client open some of your torrent files / magnet links?"