While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests.

      • @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        67 days ago

        The other person answered your question, but let me add that it is single-handedly the best place on the net to get ebooks and audiobooks. And that’s coming from somebody that prefers Usenet over torrents for virtually everything.

        I’ve never run across a book I haven’t been able to find and have downloaded within minutes.

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      last I checked Anonamouse was very anti-VPN (maybe its just a private tracker thing, not sure - I don’t really use those). Which sucks bc I’ve heard really good things but I’m absolutely unwilling to compromise on the IP address, even just for registration. I’ve seen too many instances of places getting burned at some point years later and having all this info on users and while I hope that never happens to them, not willing to risk it myself.

      For anyone else similarly inclined to never expose their real IP address for even a picosecond, there are some other options too like audiobookbay (daht) lu for audiobooks / irc highway for epubs/mobi (e.g. using hexchat which is FOSS). There’s also sanet (daht) st/blogs/audiobb/ (formerly audiobb (daht) com) which doesn’t have as much selection but might be good for people looking for litrpgs and other niche things that they can ddl via RG links.

      • @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I use a VPN with them, and have no problem. You have to tell them you use a VPN, so that they know you’re not registering for multiple accounts. But if them knowing you IP during the interview is a problem for you, there’s always public trackers. The experience isn’t as good, but that’s why they’re public.

        • @BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          yeah, that’s what i’ve had to do. really wish they didnt require ip during interview or whatever. would be happy creating a protonmail account so they could verify im not spam but my ip is a no-go.

          out of curiosity, do they ever use that ip again after the interview for tracking or account recovery or soemthing? like if i signed up from a coffee shop or bar or something while travelling, would it ever be required again to where i might be fucked if i needed same ip?

          • @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            No, after you register, your IP mostly doesn’t matter, with the exception that whatever IP you’re using to download the torrent, needs to be the one that downloads the torrent file. Obviously, there is a way to configure a separate session that’s allowed to download, for the people who use seed boxes.

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              so if you dont have a seedbox and get thru registration and are downloading/seeding on vpn server A and server goes down, can you switch to vpn server B or that fucks everything up?

              really wish torrent had a concept of identity using gpg or private keys so that all this pedantic ip address crap wasn’t necessary. would probably have joined private trackers ages ago if it had something liek that

              • @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                If you have your session set to be a static IP, then it will stop the torrent. If you’re using a VPN, you tell MAM that, so the IP connected to that session would be able to update.

  • Fontasia
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    It’s most amusing that most authors ended up retracting their support of the lawsuit

  • Pyrin
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    It’s really a fucking shame. Parasites to information, the lot of them with these publishers.

    • @huginn@feddit.it
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      Hachette is one of the Big 5 publishers at 10% market share. Penguin Random house (25%), HarperCollins (11%) and Wiley (not big 5 but still ~10%) were also in the suit.

      Hachette, Penguin and HarperCollins are basically half of all books that come out.

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    Is there a reason that Internet Archive has to stay in the United States? Can’t they just set up shop in some place like Russia and say FU?

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      Can’t they just set up shop in some place like Russia and say FU?

      Maybe not now, but I hope after Putin dies or gets arrested, we will gladly host all books on used hardware from Yarovaya’s package and various city-wide survaliance networks. Maybe add some new hardware.

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      I’d think Russia would try to censor a lot of material. And the US and Russia might be on more friendly terms in the next few months with the new president.