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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 19 days ago

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

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'NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books' * TorrentFreak
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NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.
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  • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Pirating only matters when you take it from the corporations. If you are a corporation, then that’s fine and expected.

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      You’re gonna sweat me over dowloading a decades old movie and yet you turn around and do THIS?

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      *offer not valid if incorporated in China

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Do you have to contact them? Why can’t you just pirate? I thought that was the point.

    Authors Sue NVIDIA for Copyright Infringement

    Like other tech companies, NVIDIA has also seen significant legal pushback from copyright holders in response to its training methods. This includes authors, who, in various lawsuits, accused tech companies of training their models on pirated books.

    Ahhhh

    For me personally I don’t have a coherent opinion

    • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Expert Access contact us We’re a small team of volunteers. It might take us 1-2 weeks to respond. 🚀 Unlimited high-speed access⚡️ Direct SFTP servers  Enterprise-level donation or exchange for new collections (e.g. new scans, OCR’ed datasets).

      https://annas-archive.li/donate

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        They can just drop like $5 to Anna’s archive and then download 30tb

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      In the article, they mention you can get ultra fast access - if you pay Anna’s for that.

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      There also may be an element of trying legally offload responsibility. If you’re paying someone else for access, you have the insurance to say you didn’t know you were getting pirated material, you paid for it and assumed that was then licensed!

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        Anna’s Archive Points Out Legal ‘Concern’

        According to the complaint, Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained. Because the site previously wasted time on other AI companies, the pirate library asked NVIDIA executives if they had internal permission to move forward.

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          I’m definitely not arguing NVIDIA didn’t know what they were doing. They probably didn’t think their internal emails would get leaked.

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          Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained.

          Very funny

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      Yeah I don’t understand why they couldn’t just download the torrents with all of the website’s books and be done with it.

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        they wanted high-speed database access

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        Downloading the torrents is one thing. Actually leeching stuff another. At least Meta seems to have had some difficulties due to the low number of seeders.

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          Oh, yeah, I guess. Every time I’ve used torrents to get the books it hasn’t been very slow. But I imagine when you’re downloading terabytes of books it’s a very different situation

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        Aside from the speed issue, AA also has an impressive collection of metadata that isn’t always captured within the files themselves. They also have metadata for a ton of books that aren’t in their collection(yet).

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