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Anna's Archive: "The critical window of shadow libraries"
https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
"Unfortunately, the advent of LLMs, and their data-hungry training, has put a lot of copyright holders on the defensive. Even more than they already were. Many websites are making it harder to scrape and archive, lawsuits are flying around, and all the while physical libraries and archives continue to be neglected.
We can only expect these trends to continue to worsen, and many works to be lost well before they enter the public domain.
We are on the eve of a revolution in preservation, but 'the lost cannot be recovered'. 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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