Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

Internet Archive is also being sued by the US book publishing and US recording industries associations, which are claiming copyright infringement and demanding combined damages of hundreds of millions of dollars and diminished services from all libraries.

“If our patrons around the globe think this latest situation is upsetting, then they should be very worried about what the publishing and recording industries have in mind,” added Kahle. “I think they are trying to destroy this library entirely and hobble all libraries everywhere. But just as we’re resisting the DDoS attack, we appreciate all the support in pushing back on this unjust litigation against our library and others.”

You gotta be a special kind of sad to DDoS archive.org...

Foreign government, moneyed interests, or domestic dipshits, taking all bets.

Across social, economic, and political spectra, you can always tell the good guys from the bad guys by their stance on access to knowledge.

Losing the internet archive would be such a huge loss... I really hope they have a backup plan in case things go bad legally.

Summary:

• Internet Archive, including its Wayback Machine, has been facing sustained DDoS attacks for several days
• The attacks began on Sunday and have been intermittent, but disruptive to the organization's services
• Internet Archive says the attacks have been "sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and mean"
• Despite the attacks, the organization's collections are safe, though access has been inconsistent
• This comes as Internet Archive is also embroiled in a legal battle with US book publishers over its Controlled Digital Lending program
• The non-profit is working to harden its defenses to offer more reliable access to its digital library
• Cyberattacks have been increasingly targeting libraries and other knowledge institutions recently

A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.

Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…

if you have a spare corner in your server, host the archive warrior and help them out.

What can we do to help?

That last sentence though...

• **"The cyberattacks share the timeline with the legal battle Internet Archive is facing from US book publishers, claiming copyright infringement and seeking combined damages of hundreds of millions of dollars from all libraries." ** *

Stop it you fucking bastards!

The Internet Archive needs to be distributed somehow. We can't have a single point of failure like this or we've learned nothing since Alexandria.

I've got several terabytes just laying around that I'd happily devote to ancient copies of web pages.

They could do this with the bank of america instead

Describing a high intensity DDOS attack on one of the world's most important resources as simply "mean" is unironically one of the funniest things I've read this year.

Hope they get some support soon.

Do they have any idea who’s perpetrating the attack?

If it's an entity, my money would be on China just discovering it exists since it diametrically opposes its propaganda machine. But it could very well just be dark web shitheads whose seasonal drug binge just spiked up again, plenty of them to go around to make accusations and propaganda they know are false whom can't simply backtrack it because of archive.org and it doesn't require much to disrupt a still too largely implicit trust driven Internet.

i honestly really hope this shit gets taken care of so internet archive can still keep going

people are shitty

I'm not good with computers and stuff. If somebody finds these scumbags who are ddos'ing internet archive I'd be very grateful. Also fucking them up in the process is also good.

Well Google search method was just leaked... Wonder if this picked that up before they pulled it.

Is it possible that someone is conducting some operation and doesn’t want it to be randomly documented?

Some state maybe? Eh I just have a hard time thinking of motives for this attack

:(

Can someone explain why they're not able to protect against this? Couldn't they put request limits or monitor for spikes and banning these attempts?

Alright let's put in our bets.

I've got $50 on JIDF behind the DDoS attack.

FBI? CIA? Or just some shit company pissed? Taking all bets.

Terrible.

Donated

Go offline a couple of days until they are losing interest in DDOS'ing? Would that work?

Couldn't they just use cloudflare or something?

Maybe temporarily switch to a different address? And leave fake addresses to catch the ddos. Then just keep changing addresses using an IPFS system to front-end the new address?

Can someone eli5 to me why it’s hard to track down these dipshits ? Even if it’s a distributed attack, picking a single IP and doing a lookup for the domain name and checking with the registrar might actually reveal their identity right ? Of course I’m guessing law enforcement needs to be involved to force registrars to give up that info if it’s not publicly available? Are there laws that say a ddos is illegal ?

It might be Trump's squad trying to make it so that his trial outcome can't get into the archive