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Anna's Archive has a well established record of selling first class access to pirated material to AI companies:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Nvidia-Court-documents-reveal-c...

" Anna’s Archive reportedly demanded more than 10,000 US dollars for so-called express access to the hosted data, after which Nvidia inquired about the exact modalities of such accelerated access. Nvidia was also informed by those responsible for the shadow library that the requested datasets had been illegally acquired and maintained. Anna’s Archive therefore asked if there was internal authorization. Nvidia reportedly granted this within a week, after which the shadow library granted access to the approximately 500 terabytes of pirated books. Whether Nvidia actually paid for access to the data is not revealed in the court documents."

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A better source is the TorrentFreak article cited by the parent’s citation.

https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-s...

What's with all the throwaways and accounts created in the past few minutes, all bad-mouthing Anna's Archives?

I noticed that as well. This site is so well designed.

Some weird astroturfing going on.

If you cant ban or arrest or stop them, then you badmouth and create fake dissent and claim the 'documents are spyware and malware'.

And naturally, nanoclaw openclaw etm make it easy-peasy to make instant botfarms.

I must have triggered the botfarm, like how that "MK Rathbun clawbot" attacked Scott Shambaugh. Now at -3.

You're not being downvoted by "sensitive bot owners."

You're being downvoted because you're lying.

There isn't a single comment claiming malware or spyware from anna's archive.

All the "negative" claims are either factual (the material was illegally obtained, that they take donations for faster access to said stolen material) or closer to neutral (nvidia paid a very small amount them for access).

The green accounts may very well be a coordinated attempt to badmouth anna's archive. But your attempt to protect AA is even more clumsy, somehow.

> There isn't a single comment claiming malware or spyware from anna's archive.

It's possibly flagged now, but at least one comment speculated whether AA had ties to the FSB and was selectively serving malware to specific individuals or orgs, while serving regular files to the rest.

Please be aware I am NOT making this argument, and you don't need to debate the technical feasibility with me (please don't, I'm not interested); I'm merely pointing out this is indeed something a minority are arguing here on HN, so "not a single comment" is an overstatement.

That's a funny way of responding to a post without addressing the substance of it.

10k only??? Incomparable to the value delivered any way you measure it...

Yeah, that's pocket-change for NVIDIA, doesn't sound legit.

i mean it literally says that in the linked post, the 'accelerated access' is SFTP

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