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Anna's Archive

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... that an illegal search engine for books and scholarly articles has been blocked in several countries?

Source: "Issued by the Rotterdam District Court, the order requires a local Internet provider to block two well-known shadow libraries; “Anna’s Archive” and “Library Genesis” (LibGen)." (https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-court-orders-isp-to-block-annas-archive-and-libgen-240322)
"With no counterclaims received from the contacted parties and having determined mass infringement on the site, an order to disable https://annas-archive.org through a DNS block was issued to Italian ISPs, to be completed in 48 hours." (https://torrentfreak.com/silenzio-annas-archive-shadow-library-blocked-following-publishers-complaint-240104)
"The order will continue the blocking of sites first blocked in 2015 (AvaxHome, Ebookee, FreeBookSpot, FreshWap, LibGen, Bookfi and BookRe), as well as extending to "copycat" domains, sites linked to the original targets and a number of newly added domains and networks including Library Genesis, Z-Library and Anna’s Archive." (https://www.thebookseller.com/news/publishers-association-wins-high-court-bid-ordering-internet-service-providers-to-block-pirate-websites)

ALT1: ... that an illegal search engine for books and scholarly articles has been used to train large language models? Source: "Prominent AI companies including DeepSeek have used its library of books and articles to train their AI models." (https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-urges-ai-copyright-overhaul-to-protect-national-security-250201)
"Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the 'most damning evidence' yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books... The new evidence showed that Meta torrented 'at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive'..." (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say)
Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by BruschettaFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

BruschettaFan (talk) 16:16, 10 February 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting: - For Hook 1; by naming illegal in the hook it makes it no wonder that it is blocked. IMHO, you should go for Anna's Archive search engine. Hook 2 IMHO doesn't look interesting, as AI models are trained with all the internet (copyrighted or not).
Other problems: - I think the title of the article should appear in the hook.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: C messier (talk) 20:13, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

How about ALT2: ... that the search engine Anna's Archive has been blocked in several countries for copyright infringement? BruschettaFan (talk) 20:40, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I was think more of twinking a bit the main hook; that the search engine Anna's Archive for books and scholarly articles has been blocked in some countries? C messier (talk) 20:49, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Another option ALT3: ... that the illegal search engine Anna's Archive has said it aims to "catalog all the books in existence"? (from https://www.laweekly.com/free-z-library-e-book-download-search-engine-annas-archive-launches-amid-arrests)