[trilogic]

Who is behind Annas archive, there is a lot of english speakers involved in the team and forums! Anyway as long as buying isn´t owning no issues here.

[Cider9986]

I think Anna is behind it.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r...

https://reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r/im_curio...

[ajcp]

> ANother aNonymous Address.

True or not I rather like that one.

[Cider9986]

>Stands up "I am Anna!!"

This one's good as well. This is an example of a rare good Reddit thread.

Apparently this is the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0

But this is what I thought of: https://youtu.be/hdsB99HQ2S8?t=194

All are examples of people with less power protecting each-other from a more powerful force.

[shevy-java]

I think the main source may be in Russia; or that was with libgen.

But I could be wrong.

I am more surprised to see that there are so few alternatives to it. Or perhaps I am unaware of them but after Facebook and co declared war on libgen, and libgen going down, there were surprisingly few alternatives. Anna was one of the few. I still don't know what happened with libgen, but since the attack it really is kind of semi-gone.

[trilogic]

Libgen and similar are more alive than ever with an extended botnet growing weekly. The "googlers" indexed framework is shrinking everyday, so users wont find it in those search engines easily, also it is hard to keep up with a good storage considering price trend last 5 years so the botnet and torrents are some kind of solution I guess. (We for instance are considering to use the old taping system, cause is at least a viable alternative.

[bcye]

I’d reckon many books available on there are otherwise available DRM-free, you’d be surprised really how many authors don’t bother with DRM.

And then you could obviously just buy it physically where buying is definitely owning, so I find that sentence a bit inappropriate for books

[tumdum_]

If no issue there, then why would you ask who is behind it in a public forum?