Spyke

Replies

piracy

Comment on

World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent

Reply in thread

Anna's Archive does have guides for all of that (apart from the legal advice) on their site (use wikipedia to find the right domain).

I don't think you'd want to do so as a university student unless you want to share the same fate as Aaron Swartz though.

Comment on

Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube

Reply in thread

Hasn't had any issues that weren't rectified within a day for me. It has sorta yt-dlp functionality integrated with any source (so exporting your playlist to a local backup is a breeze).

Since the community can add their own sources, it's relatively easy to find one if the one you want isn't on the official support list. You also can use the client on any non-apple device so that's cool. (Even has local sync which is sick)

As for the IP stuff, it usually only stops playback if YT flags you as a bot (since the client doesn't send the telemetry data back to google that would normally validate your "humanity"), but something as simple as a VPN location/address change is enough to keep on watching (and the original address will work again within an hour).