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Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by whanamura » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

teekert wrote: post #131

I clicked this article to look for ways to contribute.. bandwidth. But there is no torrent/ipfs like method to help, just cash. I'd be happy to run a service that would help Wikipedia, archive.org, ddg (any service I believe in) decentralize. I always keep my Ubuntu torrents open for launch days and some beyond. I have a server running and I don't need my 50/50 fiber all the time. If I was a better software dev, I'd…

Hey, we are working with Filecoin.ai on a pilot program where their new minors in Filecoin Discover will host some of our open data sets like Prelinger Films and .Gov web pages.

It will be an additional back up to our copies. We're hosting a DWeb Meetup to share the latest in Filecoin and Storj (two decentralized storage providers we're experimenting with.)

It's Wed (tomorrow) 5/13 at 10 am Pacific, 5 PM UTC https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meet-up-virtual-decentrali...

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by whanamura » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

whanamura wrote: post #201

teekert wrote: post #131

I clicked this article to look for ways to contribute.. bandwidth. But there is no torrent/ipfs like method to help, just cash. I'd be happy to run a service that would help Wikipedia, archive.org, ddg (any service I believe in) decentralize. I always keep my Ubuntu torrents open for launch days and some beyond. I have a server running and I don't need my 50/50 fiber all the time. If I was a better software dev, I'd…

Hey, we are working with Filecoin.ai on a pilot program where their new minors in Filecoin Discover will host some of our open data sets like Prelinger Films and .Gov web pages. It will be an additional back up to our copies. We're hosting a DWeb Meetup to share the latest in Filecoin and Storj (two decentralized storage providers we're experimenting with.) It's Wed (tomorrow) 5/13 at 10 am Pacific, 5 PM UTC https://…

Sorry, "we" being the Internet Archive.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by scintill76 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

city41 wrote: post #189

Paul-ish wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are exemptions to DMCA for certain content. > Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marke…

That doesn't seem to stop Nintendo from shutting down ROM sites left and right. For example, emuparadise has complied and taken down all ROMs: https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php But here is a complete NES ROM set, just sitting there, on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NESrompack I just find it strange. Nintendo is vehement about their IP. For archive.org to get an exception doesn't make sens…

(IANAL) Circumventing DRM is usually illegal under DMCA. That quote allows circumventing obsolete DRM. NES cartridge ROM data is still covered by copyright though.

I don't know how archive.org gets away with that.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by sersi » Wed, May 13, 2020, 5:19 AM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #188

sersi wrote: post #169

I wish that Archive.org would start collecting funds to finance an external backup site. I strongly feel that archive.org is an irreplaceable treasure and that making sure that it would resist natural disasters should be a priority...

That doesn't require a special fund, donate to them. They'd make backups if they had enough donations to cover it.

I actually already donate about 250 usd a year to them... But would much prefer if there was a special fund I would donate that would make that happen in the future

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by teekert » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

whanamura wrote: post #202

whanamura wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, we are working with Filecoin.ai on a pilot program where their new minors in Filecoin Discover will host some of our open data sets like Prelinger Films and .Gov web pages. It will be an additional back up to our copies. We're hosting a DWeb Meetup to share the latest in Filecoin and Storj (two decentralized storage providers we're experimenting with.) It's Wed (tomorrow) 5/13 at 10 am Pacific, 5 PM UTC https://…

Sorry, "we" being the Internet Archive.

Oh cool! Will look into this!

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by i5heu » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

lkramer wrote: post #154

Crazy idea: Why don't ICANN hand over the running of .org to archive.org? It's a bit outside their expertise, but they do have knowhow on running tech to scale, and the extra revenue could be used to fund a very good cause. Also, I'd trust these guys not to mishandle .org (yeah, I know it's not going to happen)

> Also, I'd trust these guys not to mishandle .org

I don't trust them at all with this scope. The Archive Team dose not archive 4chan.org - not even in a shadow archive.

I think that 4chan.org is an value for social sciences of the future. 4chan.org has a influence to our culture (see the "operations" they done [1]) and it is just silly not to archive it because it is a ">right shitholeno value for future generationsI reported this issue to Jason Scott. While our discussion he got an email reading "relese it you faggot" what let him tweet "Guess who just inspired me to delay releasing the 4 Chan archives another few years" and "Yeah, I think that honestly I'm a little sick of people trying to turn the man child horseshit of that community into some sort of translated normal humanity" and "You know who thinks 4chan is a vital part of anything - not people" [2]

- i was blocked shortly after that.

I am really disappointed that this was handled so poorly

I don't think this is a good behavior. I don't think it is okay that individuals in the Internet Archive have this much power to cripple the ability of the future to understand what happened and how.

And it is a really bad idea to give these people, that let this happen, this much power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Controversies

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/970402041792143360

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by lb1lf » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

myself248 wrote: post #186

Jleagle wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be a nightmare with all the crappy email validators out there..

I recall a similar story involving amateur radio. By ITU convention, amateur callsigns are [prefix][digit][suffix], like W1AW. So one night, a new ham is operating his friend's fancier station, which has the HF equipment to talk clear around the world. And they make contact with another ham identifying himself as JY1. No suffix. Well that's weird, so they look it up, the JY prefix is Jordan, okay. So the guy on the m…

I know of a callsign causing trouble with most log programs - RAEM, which Russian amateurs dust off every now and then to commemorate polar pioneer Ernst Krenkel.

Took a while to get ARRL Logbook of the World credit for that one.