Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA
This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we’re fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.
the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they’ll undoubtedly face in the future
The Internet Archive should seriously consider moving outside US juristiction.
irc, it’s already backed up to multiple other countries. I assume this isn’t some crazy idea, and they’ve considered this themselves.
Donate to help their defense, or donate to help them move their infrastructure. I think they need money more than they need big brain ideas.
thank you so much, you’re doing god’s work
Please move out of USA where trolls are more prevalent
There must be a lot of complicated aspects to this that I don’t understand.
The right course of action seems obvious to me…
Firstly spin out a separate organisation to manage the wayback machine. It shouldn’t be part of the pot defending against litigation like this.
Secondly, and I feel silly saying this but… don’t institutionalise the perpetration of rights violations? In the age of distributed databases and the dark web and the block chain and federation surely we can figure out a way to archive media that doesn’t put people or organisations at risk of litigation.
Finally, if the individuals involved with IA are not liable for the debts of IA then the organisation should fold because that’s practically free compared to defending against these litigious assholes.
The reason this is as public as it is is because an archive like this is more useful the more is archived. If you manage it in an entirely hidden way, you basically won’t get it accessible from the clearnet and are relegated to keep it on Tor or similar. And once you do that, a lot less people will use it and thus it’ll be a lot less useful.
Also, they are not only fighting for an archive to exist, they’re fighting for it being a societally acceptable thing to exist.
and they accept donations in crypto 👍
I have a question. Would it be better for me to donate money to the Internet Archive, or would it be more beneficial long term to purchase a NAS and torrent as much stuff from TIA that I can?
Do you use the archive? If not, it’s likely you’ll want that storage space for something else eventually. Have you priced out a NAS? $20 gives you a clean conscience, $1500 gives you a cool torch that you’ll have to pass if called upon, would you take that action?
The internet archive likes being vulnerable so it can get donations. If it was serious about archival, it would all be P2P backed up.
it would all be P2P backed up
It literally is. https://help.archive.org/help/archive-bittorrents/
It literally isn’t
Can Internet Archive just stop copyright violations?
Do not get me wrong, I am all for piracy, but usually pirate websites hide themself (like libgen, for example), so that no lawsuit possesses a threat to the resource itself or resource owners.
IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates. They either believe that they are untouchable or just do not care in general. And when it causes expected result once again, they start running around asking for help and telling how dangerous it is for their entire work.
IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates.
Homie, the IA is an archive. Their first and foremost aim is to make culture and knowledge available to the masses. You should read the blog entry. It’s not like they’re distributing the latest Marvel slop.
The law is a law. Their aims do not override it. They are getting what any sane person would expect. Nothing prevented them from separating their legal and shady operations to separate entities. That, at least, would prevent compromising the whole operation. If someone puts his head in a lion mouth, it is still his fault, at least partially, that lion kills him.
It’s not like they’re distributing the latest Marvel slop.
I doubt this argument will hold in court.
It’s acting like a library. When the current laws and political systems would prevent libraries being invented now, it’s a sign that the laws are bullshit. Not that libraries are wrong.
I agree that the laws are bad. However, they are still laws. Breaking them has consequences.
The law is the law
No offence but you are gonna get absolutely crushed by this world. I truly hope that you’re just trolling with all this rage bat.
Godspeed dude.
The law can be wrong, and it would be cool if the hard work of others is maintained while that’s fixed.
You’re still missing the point tho.
