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125 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 8 Sep
This would be a huge blow if they are forced to close down for good. So much historical information about the early web and computing would be lost maybe forever.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Sep
It makes sense to me that they should take down copyrighted commercial material, like novels.
But the archiving of internet webpages, which were at one time open to viewing for free by the public, should be allowed.
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 8 Sep
I have actually used this site.
Its a shame it is closing.
Chances are it will just pop up again as another site.
Just like how the movie channels do it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 8 Sep
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @rebel_nomad 8 Sep
Since globalists will take this all the way if they can I do assume that their goal is to totally delete all of it, probably with further lawfare cases. Wait and see, I bet all the stored webpages will be next, be it via bankruptcy or infiltrating the board, or whatever means.
At the very least they'll get their stinky tentacles in, so that some selected, archived webpages will be gone, or even bloody altered!
It would be catastrophic if it closes down with no copy of the data being replicated anywhere...
That would be the 1984 memoryhole in a direct sense, and especially now that we're at least close to permanency on the web being realistic it would be soooo bad that this data does not get to that stage!
Lets hope there are at least some out there who have ripped all of it through the years, who can then "re-seed" a new, totally uncensorable archive!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 8 Sep
Yep. The archive opened themselves up to the problem by lending multiple copies at once of a given work. Authors will, of course, move to protect a copyright, event though copyright law has lots its freaking mind. Of course, copyright protects all authors, but really it's about protecting those authors these places want to monetize. The archive being a kind of record of past misdeeds is a bonus for them to remove.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 8 Sep
Is this the site where you can read acticles from paywalled news sites like new York times, financial times etc?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 8 Sep
It can be used for that.
It could also be used to view old headlines or articles before changes and corrections (and to try to catch rewriting and reframing of narratives)
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 8 Sep
Where will everything go if the Internet Archive closes? Also is there a way to decentralize this so no intermediary or middleman can take it down?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo 8 Sep
oh man... fu*k copyright bs! When Open Source and V4V will be fully embraced, all this time-wasting activity will end! Imagine Internet Archive receiving sats for freely lending books and in the other side, giving profit-less-costs directly to p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶s̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ authors.
We are far far far away from that!
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