This is regrettable. Only yesterday I accessed the archive for some books. I’ll be sure to check for bookmarked references when it comes back online.
SamDiep on
SS – for those of you who aren’t aware, the Internet Archive is under a massive DDOS attack. This follows a recent legal take down of its open book program which alleged copyright violations to the tune of $621 million. Why is this relevant to this sub … the internet archive holds snapshots frozen in time of nearly every website on the web. When a news outlet stealth edits a story to remove something inconvenient, embarrassing. When someone publishes something embarrassing and wants to erase it from public memory, Archive records it.
With nearly all records now in digital form on the web, the holders of that information can modify, erase, and revise anything they see fit and leave no record of doing so. Its the memory hole we’ve been warned about and the “hacker” collective now trying to take it down is most likely not who they claim to be.
Indomitable-Manner on
The internet archive has been under attack for a long time from all sorts of angles, if it goes it will be the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandra burning.
Tmill233 on
This is because immaculate constellation broke.
Beat_Mangler on
This is one of our most valuable resources we have we must protect it
idkfawin32 on
I was very upset
HilariousButTrue on
There’s plenty of potential culprits. Two years ago they were sued by a collection of publishing companies and had to remove over 500,000 books that they had digital records of for people to freely read. It was an amazing source of information.
TrulyChxse on
Fuck
nmacaroni on
scrubbin the internet scrubbin the internet.
scrub a dub dub.
gasOHleen on
saw this earlier, didn’t think anything of it but now It’s sparked my interest. This affects searches more than people realize
TraditionalGas1770 on
Umm.. *looks around the world* you honestly think THIS is the biggest story? When there’s literal wars and natural disasters where people are dying?
Morons_comment on
Gotta erase history before the next reset. Standard operating procedure.
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This is regrettable. Only yesterday I accessed the archive for some books. I’ll be sure to check for bookmarked references when it comes back online.
SS – for those of you who aren’t aware, the Internet Archive is under a massive DDOS attack. This follows a recent legal take down of its open book program which alleged copyright violations to the tune of $621 million. Why is this relevant to this sub … the internet archive holds snapshots frozen in time of nearly every website on the web. When a news outlet stealth edits a story to remove something inconvenient, embarrassing. When someone publishes something embarrassing and wants to erase it from public memory, Archive records it.
With nearly all records now in digital form on the web, the holders of that information can modify, erase, and revise anything they see fit and leave no record of doing so. Its the memory hole we’ve been warned about and the “hacker” collective now trying to take it down is most likely not who they claim to be.
The internet archive has been under attack for a long time from all sorts of angles, if it goes it will be the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandra burning.
This is because immaculate constellation broke.
This is one of our most valuable resources we have we must protect it
I was very upset
There’s plenty of potential culprits. Two years ago they were sued by a collection of publishing companies and had to remove over 500,000 books that they had digital records of for people to freely read. It was an amazing source of information.
Fuck
scrubbin the internet scrubbin the internet.
scrub a dub dub.
saw this earlier, didn’t think anything of it but now It’s sparked my interest. This affects searches more than people realize
Umm.. *looks around the world* you honestly think THIS is the biggest story? When there’s literal wars and natural disasters where people are dying?
Gotta erase history before the next reset. Standard operating procedure.