I didn’t realise they do tours every Friday at 1pm. I’ll have to visit some time!
I really hope the lawsuits don’t kill the Internet Archive. It’s an important resource.
The truth is stored on their harddisks. But the truth may become very illegal very soon.
They better move the whole thing out of Usa now.
Well, not to Europe. They’ve always been illegal here. I don’t know where they could even go.
They’re illegal in Europe? Could you elaborate a bit on that?
In practice, copyright would be the big problem. There is no Fair Use in Europe. There is no difference between what they do and Anna’s Archive or LibGen. As far as copyright people are concerned, this is just “theft” on a gigantic scale.
Then there’s the GDPR. As far as the EU is concerned, this is one huge human rights violation. The GDPR does allow for archives, but figuring out how the IA should operate would take some litigation. I doubt they would be allowed to provide the Wayback Machine.
Gotcha. Thanks for explaining it. I’m in the US so I was really curious on what was different in the EU that would cause problems for them
Is there a way we can help? E.g torrent seeding of the content?
http://warrior.archiveteam.org/
The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do!
The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space.
The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar program to run the virtual machine.
They push the VM images, but there’s a Docker container available too.
I wonder if I can run a resource-constrained instance of this on esxi… something to look into this weekend, thank you.
It barely uses any resources. You can have up to 6 active jobs and most of the time you’ll be waiting for an upload slot to open up so you can get one of your 6 uploaded.
You can just set it and forget it unless you have a bandwidth cap and set it on a video site.
The current American regime is a good reason for them to not only move to whatever the data storage equivalent of a tax haven is, but also move fully to Tor/I2P to cover their tracks against any enemy powers, assuming Trump and Musk don’t figure out how to deanonymize Tor and I2P.
