" I run Anna’s Archive, the world’s largest open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. Our goal is to make knowledge and culture readily accessible, and ultimately to build a community of people who together archive and preserve all the books in the world … In this article I’ll show how we run this website, and the unique challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status, since there is no “AWS for shadow charities”."

  • 0xCAFe@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s not easy. I see something along the lines of:

    • Tax the rich (we should do that anyway)
    • Introduce a UBI (universal basic income), which we need if automation increases
    • Artists don’t need to make money with their art amymore
    • Art is free
    • Good™️ artists can still earn more via comissions

    I have the — for some quite radical — take that knowledge should be free, labor should be paid. Anything that can be shared/copied without anshy cost should be open to be used by anyone.