Anna's Archive

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ID: bf969722-9ece-46b2-bc26-fb9e690fafea
Trending date: 2026-04-16
Title: Anna's_Archive
Normalized title: Anna's Archive
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna's_Archive
Wikipedia: Open article
Extract: <p><b>Anna's Archive</b> is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGen), among other sources. It calls itself "the largest truly open library in human history", and has said it aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and "track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form". It claims not to be liable for downloads of copyrighted works since it does not directly host any files, instead linking to third-party downloads. It has nonetheless been targeted for engaging in large-scale copyright infringement, facing government blocks and legal action from rightsholders and publishing trade associations.</p>
Summary: Open-source search engine aggregating shadow libraries and academic resources globally.
View count: 60922
Rank: 26
Mystery rank: 33
Newly trending: false
View delta %: 5
Mystery: false
Trending reason: A federal judge in New York issued a $322 million default judgment against Anna's Archive on April 14 after it scraped "nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings" from Spotify, with Spotify and the three major record labels as plaintiffs. The judgment is a default because Anna's Archive's anonymous operators never responded to the lawsuit—making collection essentially theoretical.
Trending reason (short): Anna's Archive, an open-source search engine for shadow libraries, is trending after a federal judge issued a $322 million default judgment against it on April 14 for scraping Spotify's commercial sound recordings.
Carried from date: 2026-04-14
Trending reason source: carried_forward
Search query used: -
Prompt version: v2.3
Flag for test: false
Created at: 2026-04-17T14:23:09.648941+00:00

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