Is hosting all that stuff even legal? I mean, they’re not making any money off of it, but they’re still a “piracy” hub. How have they survived this long?
It’s very illegal. iirc it was created by a group called “Pirate Library Mirror” after the guy that runs z-library got arrested, so I assume they’re taking anonymity seriously to avoid arrest.
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They host academic papers and books, most of them are copyrighted contents. They recently got in trouble for scraping a book metadata service to generate a list of books that hasn’t been archived yet: https://torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-accuses-annas-archive-of-hacking-worldcat-stealing-2-2-tb-data-240207/
Is hosting all that stuff even legal? I mean, they’re not making any money off of it, but they’re still a “piracy” hub. How have they survived this long?
No, it’s not.
They’ve survived by making themselves hard to identify and shut down. And as we can see here, by creating redundancies.
It’s very illegal. iirc it was created by a group called “Pirate Library Mirror” after the guy that runs z-library got arrested, so I assume they’re taking anonymity seriously to avoid arrest.
They index, not host, no? (Unless you count the torrents, which are distributed)