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NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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damn i really hope they stay. this right after their spotify crawl and domain suspension doesn't inspire hope.

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[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm confused how they can promise "high speed access" to the data while also claiming:

We do not host any copyrighted materials here. We are a search engine, and as such only index metadata that is already publicly available. When downloading from these external sources, we would suggest to check the laws in your jurisdiction with respect to what is allowed. We are not responsible for content hosted by others.

Do they have the data or do they not have it?

They also claim to be able to do things like extract text and deduplicate the data... That seems to suggest a significant amount of storage and compute power for a non-profit that has only been around for ~3 years.

I find this entire thing fishy as fuck. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not convinced that the entire existence of this data theft operation isn't simply to be a illicit data broker for AI companies. And now their is direct evidence tying both Anthropic and NVidia to them.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

i think they mean they'll provide direct access to data hosted by "third party"s (torrents?), without the captchas and throttling/rate limiting present when normally using the annas archive website

they're asking for text extraction and dedup in exchange for providing datasets. at least publicly they claim this whole project is aimed at data preservation and wide access.. they're mostly aggregating/collecting data from other shadow libraries and even if they have malicious(?) intent, i'd say they're a net positive since their code and datas are mostly(?) open sourced.