File sharing
Practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information
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| 2025 | The site offers high-speed SFTP access to its full collection to about 30 companies, primarily based in China, including language model companies and data brokers. DeepSeek's VL model was trained using data from the site. |
| May 27 2025 | The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs of Indonesia (Kominfo) blocked access to the Internet Archive, citing concerns about pornography and online gambling content. Alexander Sabar, the Director of the Supervision of Digital Space, claimed the blocking was temporary and could be reversed if offending content was removed. |
| 2025 | Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Net, a new social network project for scientific paper sharing, which is invite-only and uses SCIHUB cryptocurrency tokens for paper requests and uploads. |
| April 2025 | OCLC filed a successful joint motion with the named defendant to drop her from the case, focusing on obtaining judgement against Anna's Archive itself. |
| March 2025 | Anna's Archive averaged over 650,000 daily downloads, which is approximately 10 times the estimated daily distribution of the New York Public Library. |
| March 14 2025 | LibGen's libgen.is URL is reported to be operational again after previous months of downtime. |
| 2025 |
Nym
Nym development team proposed replacing the Sphinx packet format with a new, lighter 'Outfox' format to optimize network efficiency while maintaining strong anonymity guarantees.
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| March 2025 | The court deferred judgment on aspects of the OCLC lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Ohio, citing legal novelty. The court denied both OCLC's motion for default judgment and the named defendant's motion to dismiss. |
| February 2025 | Authors filed an amended complaint against Meta, revealing internal emails showing the company had torrented 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and Library Genesis. |
| February 2025 | The LibGen URL libgen.is continued to be down during February. |
| February 2025 | Unsealed internal emails in a lawsuit against Meta revealed that the company had downloaded over 81 terabytes of data through Anna's Archive torrents. |
| February 2025 | Library Genesis (LibGen) continues to experience website downtime for its libgen.is URL during February. |
| January 2025 | Wired magazine reported that Meta Platforms used Library Genesis (LibGen) resources to train its AI language models, based on court documents from a class-action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, and comedian Sarah Silverman against Meta. |
| January 2025 | The LibGen URL libgen.is was reported as being down during January. |
| January 2025 | Telegram suspended Anna's Archive's channel and messaging app access due to copyright infringement, without prior warning. In the same week, Z-Library's Telegram channel was also suspended. |
| January 2025 | Library Genesis (LibGen) experiences website downtime for its libgen.is URL during January. |
| 2024 | Swilk begins the Internet Archive visual arts residency, part of a program designed to connect artists with the Archive's collections and explore open access to information through artistic practice. |
| 2024 | Australian secure phone provider Ghost was raided by law enforcement. |
| 2024 |
Nym
Aggelos Kiayias was awarded the Lovelace Medal for his contributions to blockchain and cryptography.
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| 2024 |
Nym
Ben Laurie was a co-recipient of the Levchin Prize for his work on Certificate Transparency.
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| 2024 | Anna's Archive was again listed in the Notorious Markets List by the United States Trade Representative. The Association of American Publishers identified it as an infringing site and analyzed its cryptocurrency wallets, finding a total of $29,596.21 in received funds. |
| December 2024 | Publishers successfully seized the 'library.lol' domain and took most Library Genesis domains offline. |
| December 2024 | The majority of Library Genesis domains are seized or disabled through legal action by a group of publishers led by Pearson Education. The German consortium (CUII) also institutes a country-wide blocking order against Library Genesis without court authorization. |
| December 2024 | The UK Publishers Association successfully obtained a High Court of Justice order requiring major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Anna's Archive and other copyright-infringing websites, as part of ongoing efforts to protect copyrighted materials under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. |
| October 2024 | Internet Archive strikes a deal with Leiden University Library to accept and digitize 400,000 uncatalogued foreign dissertations, including works by notable scientists and scholars like Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and others. |
| October 25 2024 | Login feature restored, and Internet Archive services fully resumed after cybersecurity incident. |
| October 14 2024 | Brewster Kahle reported Wayback Machine volume returned to normal at 1,500 requests per second. |
| October 13 2024 | Wayback Machine restored in read-only format, with web page archiving temporarily disabled. |
| October 9 2024 | Experienced a significant cybersecurity incident including DDoS attacks, site defacement, and a data breach affecting approximately 31 million user accounts. |
| October 9 2024 | Major cybersecurity incident with DDoS attacks, site defacement, and a data breach affecting approximately 31 million user accounts. SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility. |
| September 2024 | The Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris issued a new court order requiring internet service providers to block an additional 98 Z-Library domains, following the previous legal action in 2022. |
| September 2024 | Google and Internet Archive signed a partnership to allow people to see previous website versions on Google Search using the Wayback Machine. |
| September 2024 |
Tor
Tails, a security-focused operating system, was announced as becoming part of the Tor Project, expanding its network of privacy-oriented software platforms.
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| September 26 2024 | A US judge ordered LibGen to pay the publishers US$30 million, despite uncertainty about who operates the platform. |
| August 2024 | Datasite Global Corporation completed its acquisition of Ansarada Group Limited (ASX:AND). |
| July 2024 |
I2P
I2P version 2.6.0 released, which discontinued I2P access over Tor connections.
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| July 2024 | Anton Napolsky and Valeriiia Ermakva escaped house arrest in Argentina. An Interpol warrant was issued for their arrest, and their whereabouts became unknown. |
| July 2024 | Jason Pusey, a former Gibraltar international footballer, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for coordinating a large-scale drug operation involving cocaine, ketamine, and cannabis. |
| July 2024 | Following the OCLC lawsuit, Anna's Archive replaced its .org mirror with a .gs mirror to avoid US jurisdiction. Shortly after, the .gs domain was suspended, and the site reverted to the original .org domain. |
| June 2024 | Cybernews reported a leaked database of nearly 10 million users from a Z-Library scam clone site (Z-lib[.]is). |
| May 2024 | U.S. authorities conducted domain name seizures, including Z-Library's email domain z-lib.se. |
| May 27 2024 | Internet Archive suffered a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, making services unavailable intermittently. Hacker group SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility. |
| April 2024 | Z-Library announced the shutdown of their Chinese social media accounts on WeChat and Bilibili, citing alleged attacks against volunteers by the Chinese judicial system. |
| March 2024 | A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Nvidia in a California federal court, alleging that the company trained its NeMo AI platform using the Books3 dataset, which includes copyrighted data from Anna's Archive. |
| March 2024 | The Rotterdam District Court issued a blocking order against Anna's Archive and Library Genesis, requiring major internet service providers in the Netherlands to block these sites following a request by anti-piracy group BREIN. The order was 'dynamic', allowing for blocking of future domain or IP address changes. |
| March 23 2024 | The Dutch pirate site blocklist added Library Genesis and Anna's Archive following a request by BREIN, a local anti-piracy group, further restricting the platform's availability. |
| March 1 2024 | Publishers requested a default judgment and an injunction to compel gateway providers IPFS, Pinata Technologies, and Cloudflare to deny services to Library Genesis. |
| January 2024 | Additional Z-Library domains were targeted by publishers. |
| January 2024 | Italy's national communications agency ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Anna's Archive following a copyright complaint by the Italian Publishers Association. The Digital Services Directorate investigated the site and confirmed the presence of copyrighted material, identifying that some servers were likely owned by a Ukrainian hosting provider. |
| January 2024 | OCLC filed a lawsuit against Anna's Archive in an Ohio federal court, claiming the WorldCat scrape was achieved through cyberattacks and seeking over $5 million in damages and an injunction. |
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