Comment by SecretDreams

6 days ago

If you end up torrenting very illegal or malicious content, who is responsible? Will it be you, the app creator?

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yoavm  6 days ago

Assuming you are referring to non-books kind of content: I assume that if this happens to anyone, we'd learn about it and all stop seeding AA's content until they explain what happened and how they're making sure it doesn't happen again. The poor person this happened to will have to explain that this wasn't at all what they thought the software was doing.

As I said in other comments - yes, this requires some kind of trust in the AA project. Personally, I tend to have more trust in this kind of projects than in big corporations, of which people are happily running their binaries without blinking. However, I'm not trying to convince people to trust AA - this project is simply meant for those who want support them.

  • SecretDreams  6 days ago

    AA has plenty of illegal and gray content. It's not something laypeople should help to seed. You need to go in eyes wide open and protect yourself if you're participating, which I do not feel you are sufficiently emphasizing in this pitch.

rolymath  6 days ago

Why do none of you understand that this is for Anna's archives official torrents only?

  • throwaway150  6 days ago

    > Why do none of you understand that this is for Anna's archives official torrents only?

    Because you are on the site where people who have no understanding of the domain or the problem still feel it necessary to share their opinion on things they don't understand.

  • ozim  6 days ago

    It is first time I see name of that project. I don't know anyone who is involved in that project. On Wikipedia I see it "shadow library launched by pseudonymous Anna".

    "Anna's archives official torrents only" - doesn't put me at ease and it is far far from SETI@Home that was ran by highly regarded university and it wasn't storing any torrents on people hard drive.

    Random people should not "just try it out because it is as easy as SETI@Home" - it should be, people who already know the project and would like to contribute but it was a hassle for them to set it up.