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Anna's Archive Loses .GS Domain Name but Remains Resilient


Popular pirate library search engine Anna's Archive had its .GS domain name suspended shortly after its recent switch.

In its blog post, the site quotes the third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson, who illustrated the importance of preservation though multiplication more than 200 years ago. “The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1791 “We have a critical window of about 5-10 years during which it’s still fairly expensive to operate a shadow library and create many mirrors around the world, and during which access has not been completely shut down yet.

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