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Internet Archive is in danger (www.battleforlibraries.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They should have:

  • Not sell out to AI.
  • Deleted doxxing info (they already removed stuff like Mike Matei's racist webcomics on behalf of Mike Matei).
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Can they sink the IA name and just set up as another entity? I mean, declare bankruptcy etc. What happens to the archived data in this scenario? I am not a lawyer so I have no idea

Edit perhaps they can setup up an entity, sell the data to it, and bankrupt IA?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Surely not or else companies would be doing this every day to avoid litigation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Again, I have no idea what I am talking about but you can have provisions to protect assets in bankruptcy. But besides that, I am not sure if distributing the assets to another nonprofit entity prior would help save the archived data

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/dissolving-a-nonprofit-when-and-how-to-dissolve-a-nonprofit

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Fuck.

I really hope someone gets hold of the data and shares it on p2p or otherwise. If all this data is deleted it would be equivalent to nuking pyramids or burning Picasso paintings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's one of the reasons why uploads to the Archive have torrents.

Now if they'd just fix the damn tracker..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Good luck, every day more than 1PB is uploaded to IA.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, I'd say it would be much much worse than your examples. It would be erasing parts of history itself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fuck yes, we need to get our hands on this stuff for fucks sake. I have shit there I don’t even know I need yet

Can someone fucking near get their ass there and do a legendary copy paste operation on a massive scale

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There's no link. Down voted.

Update: OP updated the post to include a link. Up voted.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Seriously no one cares if you downvote or upvote stuff. Get lost with your inept attempt at manipulation

Yeah and I was supposed to stay calm and cute this whole week see what you have done with your shitty comment?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was asking others to downvote low effort content to improve the quality of the content on the platform for others.

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