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24 Aug 2026, 11:10 PM	Hacker News	3.5	Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online Anna's Archive, a shadow library aggregating books and papers, owes $340M in damages from a music industry lawsuit triggered by a Spotify scrape, and has lost multiple domains (.org, .se, .pm, .vg) through court injunctions. Despite a coordinated infrastructure attack in mid-August 2026 causing extended downtime, the site bounced back each time. Why: If you rely on Anna's Archive for accessing papers or datasets, expect intermittent availability and domain churn—bookmark multiple mirrors and don't depend on any single domain. The legal precedent of domain suspensions via injunction (without the site being shut down) is a pattern that could affect other indexing or scraping services builders depend on. legal shadow-libraries infrastructure scraping

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24 Aug 2026, 11:10 PM

Hacker News

3.5

Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

Anna's Archive, a shadow library aggregating books and papers, owes $340M in damages from a music industry lawsuit triggered by a Spotify scrape, and has lost multiple domains (.org, .se, .pm, .vg) through court injunctions. Despite a coordinated infrastructure attack in mid-August 2026 causing extended downtime, the site bounced back each time.

Why: If you rely on Anna's Archive for accessing papers or datasets, expect intermittent availability and domain churn—bookmark multiple mirrors and don't depend on any single domain. The legal precedent of domain suspensions via injunction (without the site being shut down) is a pattern that could affect other indexing or scraping services builders depend on.