The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

Not surprising. They archive information that powerful people would rather we forget.

I was briefly able to get to https://archive.org/donate - I’m going to kick them a few bucks and recommend anyone else who can afford to also do so.

There’s also this, copied verbatim from the site:

Other ways to donate Mail your donation to:
Internet Archive
C/O Philanthropy Department
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94118-2116

In order to ensure you receive an acknowledgement of your gift as quickly as possible, please include an email address with your mailed donation. We regret that we cannot accept cash or check donations in currencies other than USD.

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If you would like to make a stock or wire transfer gift, please contact us at donations@archive.org

I say we go full Streisand effect on whatever dickhead is trying to censor them.

What kind of dick smack attacks the internet archive!!!!

Why out of all sites why internet archive

I very rarely go to the internet archive, but the moment I needed to get a safe copy of very old software, shitty people decided to DDOS it. shitty humans. find better hobbies losers

I was wondering what was going on. The Internet Archive is an incredibly important asset beyond archiving websites because it has things like the Prelinger Collection, which is the largest archive of industrial, educational and other ephemeral films, which would be only accessible via commercial sites like YouTube otherwise.

And that's really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the audio, video and texts available.

I hope this gets resolved soon.

the internet archive is a very useful tool for countering the "official story" whenever the powers that be are lying.

If you're able, I hope you donate to the internet archive. There's a lot of horrible people from all over youtube that like to erase their old videos to help control their own narrative.

Who would downvote something like this, without leaving a comment to explain why!?

Sometimes I wish I could see that info, in rare circumstances like this.

The attack on the few remaining services that the "every person" openly benefits from is so disheartening.

Not the save structure for org, but this feeling made be remember The Consumerist in it's heyday and when it was bought and silenced effectively... you know kids, the internet used to be a thing that actually helped and supported us without the ready acceptance of 51% "hallucinations" in information. It was actual people, in small, quiet corners, that didn't demand subscriptions and micro transactions at every turn. It wasn't that long ago.

The Internet Archive is so important. The closest thing to a digital library.

"The data is not affected." You know, that's an interesting thing to point out. The attackers clearly want to restrict access to information, possibly specific information, possibly information in general.

However, whoever is in charge of this DDoS is clearly fulfilling a directive of "prevent access to it." And they clearly don't realize that a DDoS is temporary. Do they have a plan for when it's back up? They can't just DDoS forever, unless they plan on DDoSing the entire internet. And I don't see them having the resources literally the rest of the world has.

And I wondered why I couldn't access the page 6 hours ago...

Why the fuck...

So the recording industry thugs hired out a job. Not the first time.

Donated!

Reddit also has vote fuzzing where you can get the number of votes, but it's always manipulated for some reason.

I don't understand the point, and tbh it's a serious case of social media mind fuckery. It's a real problem for anyone who creates an incredibly specific subreddit for use by a group and then everyone is left wondering who keeps downvoting them. That can have real life consequences for anyone who doesn't understand what is happening.

Damn. I guess this is why we can't have nice things.

I guess I'll take this opportunity mention if one cannot make a monetary donation to IA. You can always help them out by help seed some of their torrents. I'd appreciate it at least :P

Department of Erasing History.

Sounds like a group of pedophiles.

Link to source on the fediverse/mastodon: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149

How am I supposed to know what jcctv.net looked like back in 2011 now?

Thanks a lot, Department of Erasing History. I hate you now.

(And yes, that is indeed a real website... well, it WAS a real website)

Oh shit... it's the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth!

Is it a tutorial of how to be a jerk?

looks like itch.io is down too. might be a coincidence or someone trying to show off...

What kind of sick fuck would do this?

I'm working on a protocol that makes information quite hard (I won't say impossible because nothing probably is) to take down, because I believe in both information shouldn't be censored and that everyone should be able to share what they want (yes moral stuff like a song).

I'd love meeting like-minded people to learn more about what other people do and think about stuff like that :-)

I mean there are ways to get around ddos or the "great" firewall of china for example. So why not do it?

Tried to reach out on matrix and some niche communities but they were very (very) small, so I'm still looking for some melting pot.

Any idea?

This seems like it could be the work of someone who doesn't want their webpage data being scraped and stolen by AI LLMs, that are using archive.org as some kind of method for bypassing paywalls.

Damn, I was about to watch, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.. 😣

If I find out who's doing it I'm chopping off your hands and stealing your botnet. Long live The Internet Archive!

Someone is really trying to recreate the Burning of Alexandria. Can we be certain that Internet Archive and Wikipedia (as awful of a shit place that can be) are going to stand the test of time at this rate?

I was wondering why I couldn't get to it yesterday.

It has time on its side.

Just now? Would thought theyd been hit at least once before now

Odd. I'm able to listen to music there still

100% US Military doing it.