IT'S OFFICIALY OKAY TO DOXX SN_BLACKMETA.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Soulseek has been getting hammered too
Eugh I'm overdue donating to them. I've done Wikipedia as I use it way more but this site is important and I think it's time.
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Which pathetic limp dick asshat is attacking the internet archive?
Fucking spend the time to attack a company that deserves it.
For all we know, could be some fat teenager doing it for the "lulz" or just "winning" by owning them libs.
Lol, even the "own the lib" types I'm hard pressed to believe would do this. Alot of them probably benefit from IA in that they often pull stuff from there for their smear or attack campaigns.
That would be very difficult though for a site as large as the Internet Archive. They will most definitely have intricate defense strategies and lots of bandwidth. Cannot really imagine a teenager to be capable of that unless their parents are billionaires.
Have you seen how slow their site is normally? Just request loads of obscure random pages and it will just eat their IO.
Throw some standard ddos on top to obscure things and your good? (Bad)
Edit: I know nothing about their storage, so I may be wrong. It just feels like they are held together with spit and prayers at the best of times.
Right? Even from a purely selfish perspective, this is unwarranted and wanton whereas if you go after a company you can make money.
The companies that deserves it....
You gotta be a real piece of shit to target the Internet Archive.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were paid by the companies currently battling them over copyright. Bunch of greedy bastards.
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This should be pursued the same way as if you broke into the Louvre and shat on the Venus Di Milo
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
While the San Francisco institution has assured users that its collections and web archives are safe — that's the good news — it warns service remains spotty for the online library and its Wayback Machine.
Since the flood of phony network traffic began, attackers have launched "tens of thousands of fake information requests per second," according to Chris Freeland, director of library services at Archive.
And while the traffic tsunami has been "sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean," it's not the biggest threat to the site, according to Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Archive.
Kahle founded the nonprofit service – which provides free access to tons of digitized materials, from software and music to scans of print books — in 1996.
The Internet Archive is right now fighting legal battles against major US book publishing companies and record labels, which have charged the site with copyright infringement and are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
An anonymous gang calling itself SN_Blackmeta, which seems to be against US and Israeli interests and writes in English, Russian, and Arabic, has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks for reasons unknown.
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