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Comment by simgt

6 months ago

Related question, has Anna's archive been thoroughly filtered for non-copyright-related illegal material? Pedo, terrorism, etc. I've considered downloading a few chunks of it but I'm worried of ending up with content I really don't want to be anywhere near from.

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gosub100  6 months ago

The team that curates it is very dedicated and wouldn't do such a thing. The least of reasons being they don't want the heat from it.

I'm not sure what other forms of information is illegal beyond CP. In the US, bomb making instructions are not illegal. In other dictatorships or zealous religious regimes, information about democracy or works that insult Islam might be illegal

bilekas  6 months ago

This is a really strange question to be honest you could ask this literally about any download let alone simply torrents of documents.

dns_snek  6 months ago

Download everything, we know that laws don't apply when you do it on a large enough scale. Not legal advice.

  • lukan  6 months ago

    I think you got that wrong. Laws only don't apply if you are large enough. (Like Meta)

niux  6 months ago

How might you inadvertently download illegal content while searching for legal content?

  • lukan  6 months ago

    He said he wants to download lots of it in general, not specifical. Legit question, if you end up with dark material.

    I would assume pedo stuff is not really there, but the anarchist cookbook and alike likely will be.

    • qingcharles  6 months ago

      There is illegal stuff in there, because some of the books they've swept up into the archive have been retconned to be illegal. A lot of obscene material wasn't illegal until into the 80s, and these shadow libraries are scooping up everything without checking. I don't know what they do if you report it to them.

      For instance, there are issues of multiple issues of Playboy with underage models. All the archives of British tabloid newspapers had to be purged in 2003 after the laws changed there, etc.

    • bilekas  6 months ago

      I'm still not sure the question makes much sense, if it's a general: "I want to support the project and so I want to seed a large chunk" Okay, I guess it's your due diligence to check, but there is a reporting feature built in, if something is found, report it.

      Aside from that, if you're searching for specific content, the question is moot I guess.

      I guess my confusion is what distinguishes this apart from any other torrent ? That is, if the submitted content is submitted at all.

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