They already had a big target on their back. Sure, scraping Spotify made that larger, but given that their aims are explicitly political, I think there's a lot of value in not being overly cautious and using takedowns as a way to bolster the resiliency of your service.

Domain takedowns are inevitable, even if they'd just continued with their existing archival efforts. That's why, when I found I wasn't able to access the .org domain over the weekend, I just went to https://annas-archive.se/ instead.

Edit: wrote one of the old domains (.gs) because I just use what's bookmarked and got mixed up. It was .se that I used

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

.gs is not one of the currently listed domains. Are you sure that's a real one?

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago

That's the old one they temporarily switched to that got taken down; the current options are annas-archive.li, annas-archive.se, annas-archive.pm, and annas-archive.in.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

You're right, it was the .se one I used and I misremembered when writing my comment. Though this mistake highlights why adding sites like this to your bookmarks is important. Opportunistic scams are always common when a big domain goes down, and mistakes are easy to make