Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people’s rooms to consume media.

Seems like it, I switched to my current instance explicitly to avoid dealing with this stuff

Yep, since I mostly pirate obscure games I don’t need to worry about the VPN. Lutris works great for fitgirl-repacks

Huh, it seems it depends on the existing sources, I’m not particularly sure how that works

From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download

2. Use ipfs

3. use torrents

4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)

5. Slow direct download [Edited]

It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors

No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)

Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything

Nope, just means that you can’t make over 200,000 US yearly if it has over 200,000 downloads