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Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by adamnew123456 »

serendipty01 wrote: post #68

Does someone know where i can download MIT OCW videos ? As the videos are present on archive.org but it is down and i was unable to find them anywhere else online ? Also, yt-dlp is also not working: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128 Example: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-introductory-biology-fall-...

I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker.

If you're lucky there's other seeds around, and not just the IA web seeds which (I assume?) are down too.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by sourcepluck »

seestem wrote: post #2

It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.

I'm hoping that Autonomi (formerly The Safe Network) is up for the job when (if) it makes it out into the real world one day https://forum.autonomi.community/t/the-internet-archive-a-pe...

[I know that some percentage between 95 and 100 of crypto projects are a scam. I personally believe this one isn't, after much diligent reading. Whether it gets released or does what it claims it will do is another question, but please do spare me the kneejerk anti-crypto reactions, if you can. Just because they're almost all money-making scams, doesn't mean they're all money-making scams.]

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Post by CaptArmchair »

nikisweeting wrote: post #65
diggan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're always responsible for what you, yourself and your computer does. There is a chance EFF/some other organization could help you out in case you end up in court, but that's a maybe, not a guarantee.

Harder to make this argument with encrypted distributed filesystems. If I'm storing a single chunk of an encrypted blob on Filecoin, am I responsible for the entire file even if I don't know what's in it, and I'm only storing a single fragment?

This depends on the jurisdiction you're in. I.e. Europe's GDPR argues that you need consent to keep someone's personal data. Encryption doesn't equate anonymization, so there's a potential liabity.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by tonetegeatinst »

Cheer2171 wrote: post #9
seestem wrote: post #2

It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.

You say this as if it is an original idea. Of course the IA is working on this and have been for over 6 years. There already is a DWeb version. They have been advancing DWeb infrastructure. The IA hosts all kinds of DWeb developer events. But it is over 50 petabytes and the IA gets a huge amount of traffic through the regular web that they need to serve quickly and efficiently to their users. Guess what has happened…

Can confirm that issue about people only seeding what they are interested in.

I found a dataset I wanted to hoard but the authors website was gone. A dataset site had a torrent and I said great I'll just torrent and seed that and help keep the thing alive, turns out I can't find a single seeder for the torrent.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by Alifatisk »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #50

There have been so many instances since it's been down that I tried to access IA resources and realized they were unavailable. I'm still bitter that of all the targets a hacker could've chose, it was the IA. Couldn't have happened to a better website. I plan on upping my monthly donation as soon as I can.

Hope these hackers receive lots of negative reactions from their peers and people around them.

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Post by thrownaway561 »

seestem wrote: post #2

It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.

that will never happen. no one is going to be able to seed the amount of data that IA has. The only thing they can hope for is that a company like Google or CF provides another data center for them.

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Post by krunck »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #50

There have been so many instances since it's been down that I tried to access IA resources and realized they were unavailable. I'm still bitter that of all the targets a hacker could've chose, it was the IA. Couldn't have happened to a better website. I plan on upping my monthly donation as soon as I can.

What makes you think the "hacker" was just a person looking for an easy target? More likely that this was a targeted attack by those that don't like IA.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by akudha »

lukas099 wrote: post #29
Cheer2171 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say this as if it is an original idea. Of course the IA is working on this and have been for over 6 years. There already is a DWeb version. They have been advancing DWeb infrastructure. The IA hosts all kinds of DWeb developer events. But it is over 50 petabytes and the IA gets a huge amount of traffic through the regular web that they need to serve quickly and efficiently to their users. Guess what has happened…

If I help seed this DWeb and it turns out it has some copyrighted materials in it, will I be potentially held liable?

This.

Until a clear, precise answer to this question is available, it is unreasonable to expect individuals to take risks and seed.

It is one thing if an organization like IA gets in trouble with the law. They have money, lawyers, name recognition and are big enough to at least fight a lawsuit, even if they lose. Who is going to help an individual if he/she gets in trouble with the law, unknowingly? Am I expected to read through tons of complex copyright law and interpret it, just so I can seed a handful of items? No thanks.

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Post by gg-plz »

nikisweeting wrote: post #65
diggan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're always responsible for what you, yourself and your computer does. There is a chance EFF/some other organization could help you out in case you end up in court, but that's a maybe, not a guarantee.

Harder to make this argument with encrypted distributed filesystems. If I'm storing a single chunk of an encrypted blob on Filecoin, am I responsible for the entire file even if I don't know what's in it, and I'm only storing a single fragment?

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