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by lukan 165 days ago
Annas archive is not based in the EU (sorry for being not clear). So the law in EU is limited to enforce a ban. In germany it is already "banned" via ISP but just DNS.

But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts.

So unless the EU installs a great firewall like china, they cannot really shut it down.

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> But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts.

I believe the "official" AA servers only host the website + source code. The actual copyrighted content is stored by volunteers who seed the torrents.

Exactly, this is why the 'Hydra' is difficult to take it down.