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Perhaps one idea is to let people choose what they want to protect. This way people wanting to support it can have their mission.
You already can, they have torrents for everything.
This is in line with its mission as the "Library of Congress". Being able to have an accurate record of what was on the Internet at a specific point in time would be helpful when discussing legislation or potential regulation involving the internet.
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This is literally torrents. Just give up
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
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archive.org to name one
That's debatable. Most of their torrents are for things under copyright, though any other decentralized archive would have the same problem.
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The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
The problem with file transfer is they have a bad reputation since people use it to [insert illegal or immoral activity here]. Then rename it from "torrent" to something else.
The bad reputation is inherent to the tech, not a random quirk.
The Library of Congress should be archiving the Internet and it should have the budget required to do so. This is in line with its mission as the "Library of Congress". Being able to have an accurate record of what was on the Internet at a specific point in time would be helpful when discussing legislation or potential regulation involving the internet.
[0] https://www.loc.gov/programs/web-archiving/about-this-progra...
[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/08/the-web-archiving-te...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initia...
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Is there a reason to blame the victim, rather than the attackers? I’m asking seriously - did IA do shitty things that make them a worthy cause for politically/ideologically motivated hacking?
I imagine they're referring to the fact that the leadership showed extremely bad judgement in deciding to pick a battle with the major publishing companies that everyone knew they would lose before it even began [0]. I don't think that justifies blaming the victim here, and from what I can see the attacker doesn't seem to be motivated by anything other than funsies, but I absolutely lost a lot of faith in their leade…
Feeling entitled?
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
This has really shown that the be true. I am stuck in a situation right now where I have some lost media I want to upload but they have been down for over a week. I plan to create a torrent in the meantime but that means relying on my personal network connection for the vast majority of downloads up front. I looked into CloudFlare R2, not terrible but not free either. I was looking into using R2 as a web seed for the…
Does anyone know who is targeting the Internet Archive, and why? I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.
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IPFS has shown that the protocol is fundamentally broken at the level of growth they want to achieve and it is already extremely slow as it is. It often takes several minutes to locate a single file.
Several minutes sounds more than fine for this purpose ? Especially if it's about having an Internet Archive backup.