When Anna’s Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this year, the Archive quickly bounced back.
I hope they survive. They have an insane amount of books that might be near impossible to find today. I was trying to purchase old European comics that I read when I was a kid. French, Belgian, Spanish comics from the Heavy Metal, Metal Hurlant times and so on…
Quite a few have gone out of print for a long while, with a single issue sometimes selling used for over 100US, and not in very…minty condition (they’re old, after all). But they have good scans of them in Anna’s. I downloaded a few I can’t purchase anymore…and I’m going to go to a print shop to get them custom print.
I see why you posted this in c/books…
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Interesting tidbit:
Anna’s Archive eventually landed on .GL, .PK, and .GD domains, which remain active today. These are connected to registrars and registries based outside the United States that, apparently, do not comply with U.S. court orders.
You do? :D
