Open Library

“shadow” library

Well…

Does an equivalent exist on the darknet? They wouldn’t be able to take that down, especially if it’s built upon decentralisation for the books themselves. The index could be centralised, curated, or built by the community with the ability to back it up.

The internet archive is a great project but it’s baffling to me how difficult it is to distribute the content. It’s incredibly difficult to go “I have X amount of space available, store some of it on my disk”. More advanced stuff like “distribute the top content on my hard drive. I have X amount of space to give and X bandwidth”.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Update: After publication, a representative from Internet Archive informed us that they are not aware of any disruption to their services at this time.

The Open Library domain (openlibrary.org) doesn’t appear on the master blacklist of FOD Economie either, while several domains of the other four ‘target sites’ are included. We have reached out to the responsible authority in Belgium to get clarification on this discrepancy and will update the article if we hear back.