| ▲ | SimianSci 3 days ago | |
Given the amount of hosting and storage needed to sustain this project. Nobody is getting rich off of donations. Not to mention the lifestyle tradeoffs that innevitably come with international fugitive status do not lend themselves to a very comfortable life. The usage of crypto is entirely one of necessity, as controling information and knowledge is something powerful people have clear stakes in. Many countries weild their financial systems to hold or acquire power. Information and Knowledge is one form of such power. Everything points to the Anna's Archive team being passionate ideologues as opposed to some criminal enterprise focused on profit motives. | ||
| ▲ | cakealert 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Not to mention the lifestyle tradeoffs that innevitably come with international fugitive status do not lend themselves to a very comfortable life. Anonymous international fugitive? > Nobody is getting rich off of donations. How can anyone aside from the beneficiary know that? The extent to which the controller can get rich off this enterprise depends entirely on the unknown quantity of donated funds (and deals with AI companies) and his skill at laundering crypto (which darknet marketplace controllers doing far more illegal stuff can do). | ||
| ▲ | iLoveOncall 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> Given the amount of hosting and storage needed to sustain this project. Nobody is getting rich off of donations. They're getting donations as much as megaupload was getting donations for premium accounts... People pay for higher bandwidth and no wait time, not to support the "cause". It's a farce to qualify this of donations. And obviously people do get rich off of it, as you can see from the slew of file hosting services. | ||
| ▲ | throwaway29246 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Nobody is getting rich off of donations. I'll believe that when they publish financial statements. > Everything points to the Anna's Archive team being passionate ideologues as opposed to some criminal enterprise focused on profit motives. "Passionate ideologues" who make you pay if you want to download anything at speeds greater than 10KB/s, how nice of them. I would rather just support the author, thank you. I generally support piracy, but these piracy-as-a-business vultures who've been showing up in the shadow library scene need to go. | ||