How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive
https:// annas-blog.org /how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive
" I run Anna’s Archive, the world’s largest open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. Our goal is to make knowledge and culture readily accessible, and ultimately to build a community of people who together archive and preserve all the books in the world ... In this article I’ll show how we run this website, and the unique challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status, since there is no “AWS for shadow charities”."
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0Still figuring this platform out so hopefully this comment works.
Think of a comissioned painting. The artist is paid fairly once for that painting and then they never get money for it again. Copyright doesn't protect them so much as it protects those that can use their excess capital to horde things. Art has been around forever, copyright is new. Bands that make great music will be paid to perform, actors paid on set, writers as comission or sallaried. None of this needs copyright. Hell, the rise in free community/patron sponsored content like khan academy, most podcasts, and even some music artists proves we don't need copyright even in a system where it exists.
5I've always felt that copyright doesnt always help artists but I've never heard anyone explain it like this before. You just blew my mind.
1Why would anyone comission a writer to write a textbook, if anyone was allowed to print and publish it afterwards? And why would I pay the fee for the band that has to make up for their time writing the music when I can also just visit the way cheaper concert where the same music is being performed? What would keep corporations from selling artists work without having to pay the artists?
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It's not easy. I see something along the lines of:
- Tax the rich (we should do that anyway)
- Introduce a UBI (universal basic income), which we need if automation increases
- Artists don't need to make money with their art amymore
- Art is free
- Good™️ artists can still earn more via comissions
I have the — for some quite radical — take that knowledge should be free, labor should be paid. Anything that can be shared/copied without anshy cost should be open to be used by anyone.
1If you are legitimately interested in this I'd strongly recommend reading Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property"
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