In that case it would be Elsevier and co.

jsheard · 2026-01-05T11:41:43 1767613303

Anna's Archive recently released a dump of the entire Spotify catalogue so they are very much in the music industries crosshairs as well now.

layer8 · 2026-01-05T11:57:33 1767614253

Only metadata has been released so far.

rswail · 2026-01-05T13:27:06 1767619626

A lot of which was contributed by users typing in CD play lists to CDDB which got corporatised by GraceNote and ended up somewhere in Sony land.

So this effectively re-releases into the public domain a lot of the user contributions during the 1990s.

hermanzegerman · 2026-01-06T10:20:11 1767694811

They only distribute outdated SciHub Records

flexagoon · 2026-01-07T01:59:32 1767751172

That's not true. Anna's Archive gets new paper uploads from Z-Lib and LibGen as well. It's much more up to date than SciHub.

hermanzegerman · 2026-01-07T10:24:30 1767781470

Then I need to try it again. I've found it pretty useless compared to NexusSTC for recent papers

flexagoon · 2026-01-08T12:58:53 1767877133

I agree, nothing beats Nexus right now. In fact, even the AA FAQ recommends using it for recent papers. They technically include the Nexus dataset in AA, but it hasn't been updated since 2024.