The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
The Wayback Machine is back online.
edit: adjusted title slightly
What's frustrating is that the ones who claimed to have done this are self-proclaimed "hacktivists". You're stupid if you think the Internet Archive is the enemy in this day and age.
24I don’t believe „hacktivists” did it. It makes no sense because the only ones who benefited from this hack were copyright holders. The claim was anonymous so we shouldn’t put much weight into it.
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...Google started adding links to archived websites in the Wayback Machine
They better be compensating it..
133I don't agree. Free linking has always been a vitally important part of the open internet. The principle that if I make something available on a specific URL, others can access it, and I don't get to charge others for linking to a public URL is one of the core concepts of the internet itself.
60There's a difference between your average Joe linking something and a massive tech company linking something. The first should always be allowed, the second should have an expectation of some form of compensation. That's why there are differences in licensing terms for lots of services, if you're using something commercially, you pay a different rate than if you're using something privately.
That said, this is on IA to enforce, and I believe they should.
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I don't know if there is compensation but the internet archive says it's a collaboration and they seem to be happy about it.
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Capitalism hates a memory. Hates/fears anything it can't update, whitewash or otherwise directly control or obscure after the fact.
If humanity had any hope, we'd surround this thing with torches to defend it tooth and nail.
44Thanks, I just used their PayPal link to send my support and light my torch!
9You give me hope, I've done the same.
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I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn't read since I was a kid.
Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it's not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn't need a physical copy. And it isn't even all that long.
Sigh.
50Damn it'd be a shame if someone DM'ed me the name of the book and I had to go looking to see if there's an epub/pdf version available for download in certain places. A real shame indeed.
27I don't care saying what book it is right here, because I've looked for both and came up wanting. It's not available normally as an ebook for purchase, so I have my doubts.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/997118.Doktor_Bey_s_handbooks_of_strange_sex
Basically, the IA had it because they scan in masses of texts without even caring what they are. As long as they get a copy and it isn't in the archive yet, they'll scan it in.
FWIW, it's pretty amusing.
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op forgot to mention that it is a "provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle.
67Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
26To you as a user it's readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.
67You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as 'writing' to the database.
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currently* back only as readonly
17Glad to see it's recovering. I hope the whole archive can come back up soon!
10Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
6My most frequent use case of the IA in general is the Cover Art Archive, and I frequently upload cover art for albums to the CAA via MusicBrainz. That's how I discovered the IA was down, when an upload failed.
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great job, mr. peabody
3Oh thank god, I was right in the middle of a project.
1RIP
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