Internet Archive is in danger

Modern corporations are a damned plague. Most of these fuckers would destroy our whole cultural heritage in a heartbeat if it meant making a profit.

Yes, corporations exist to make profit, but come on, there are limits.

corporations attack anything that might challenge their ability to make a quick buck: everyone and everything else be damned. sadly the only way to overcome this kind of monster is a decentralized network of information hoarders. appealing lawsuits is just a bandaid.

the internet archive needs to reorganize. as long as it makes itself into a target as a centralized org, it will also get shot at by soulless corporate husks. im envisioning moving everything onto ipfs, that way anyone can help host as much or little as they like.

Europe is voting this weekend. If you care about copyright reform, you should consider voting for the European Pirate Party. IA is probably in the wrong here, legally. But many would argue it's morally right to have free access to information. Sure, shadow libraries are popping up everywhere and we have access to more information than ever before, but if we really want access for everyone, we need different copyright laws, and for that we need politicians.

Would you care the elaborate more?

Fuck.

I really hope someone gets hold of the data and shares it on p2p or otherwise. If all this data is deleted it would be equivalent to nuking pyramids or burning Picasso paintings.

Everyone that wants context should read this: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-internet-archives-last-ditch

Listen, I love the IA and everything they stand for, but they're not winning this. They fucked up and gave away copyrighted content, for free, in unlimited amounts during covid. They then proceed to melt down in court because they know it's impossible to win. Now they're seeking empathy from everyone and not talking about why they got sued - which is giving away potentially millions of copies of other people's work...

The DDOS attack or the lawsuits?

ill mention this in every thread about them:

run the archive team warrior if you can. it helps them archive black boxes like telegram, discord, reddit...

Made me look for internet archive merch and found they actually do have a store for it

https://store.archive.org/

Can they sink the IA name and just set up as another entity? I mean, declare bankruptcy etc. What happens to the archived data in this scenario? I am not a lawyer so I have no idea

Edit perhaps they can setup up an entity, sell the data to it, and bankrupt IA?

Is this suppost to be a link

Just sent them a couple of bucks. Wish I could give more but the conversion rate on my currency is atrocious lol 🫠

There's no link. Down voted.

Update: OP updated the post to include a link. Up voted.

not enough AI features! /s

They made a really dumb move and now have to pay for it. I understand their importance but it doesn't seem like they do - or they are naive enough to believe corpos have good will.

They broke law in such a dumb way, and it's a pity they put their entire project in jeopardy. My only thought while deciding to donate is "what will prevent them from doing something this dumb again?"

Anti Commercial-AI license

They should have:

• Not sell out to AI.
• Deleted doxxing info (they already removed stuff like Mike Matei's racist webcomics on behalf of Mike Matei).

Is it still under attack?

Is there any way to use my own computer to take up summer off the dose traffic?

Lots of people hate blockchain technology, but you can neither take down nor ddos websites hosted on web3.0. You also cannot threaten with legal actions againts the many nodes that run the blockchain because you don't know who those are.

Why can't anyone spot a grift anymore? The IA is hugely profitable, and is very clearly crafting PR statements designed to increase donations. Has noone had their trust abused before? If they were trying to make change around this subject they wouldnt be so dishonest in their messaging.

IA are not Robin Hood.