Let’s use this as a catalyst to support them and similar projects. I’ll be donating a chunk of money to them and also to the Wikimedia foundation and other related FOSS projects.
If you are able to donate, please do! If we all do our small part, we can make a big difference.
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.
That wouldn’t make any sense.
What I wanna know is how companies get away with stuff like this.
Getting to the bottom of a cyber attack isn’t… Impossible? It just takes resources.
You just pay random people on the internet to do it, it’s fairly easy if you know where/what to ask for.
Traceable.
Just about anything is traceable. The trick is making it not worth the effort.
Ask eBay how that towing that line worked out for them.
I read yesterday that a study found out that 25% of webpages generated in 2013-2023 are gone forever. Attacking the internet archive maybe has darker motives such as censorship or plainly wanting to erase inconvenient history
Censorship is probably the most reasonable explanation
1984 that what your saying. They erase the past so they can tell you it never happen.
Who controls the past now, controls the future…
Who controls the present now, controls the past…
Who controls the past now, controls the future…
Who controls the present now?
Now Testify! It’s right outside your door
Now Testify!
Testify!
It’s right outside your door…
Work has been difficult, mostly due to coworkers lately.
If I’m blaring Rage, like I have all week, I’m ready to walk or to burn the place down. But I’m a lazy man.
This should be pursued the same way as if you broke into the Louvre and shat on the Venus Di Milo
Who benefits? This is paid for by corps using paywalls., under the table.
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.
Also Wikipedia is very well funded, there are a lot of smaller projects running on shoestring budgets
Honestly, I don’t care. At this point, looking at the smoking hellscape the internet has become, looking at what happened to wikia, I don’t care if they’re getting funded or not, I’m donating. Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are some of that last bastions of the internet the way it was meant to be. We simply can’t lose them the way we’ve lost so many others.
It’s really to curb my own anxiety more than anything else. It’s the only thing I can do to reinforce the bulwark, and I’m gonna do it, because I can rest a little bit easier knowing that bulwark is a little bit stronger.
Eugh
What is does that mean? Is that an expression of frustration like “ugh” or “argh”?
Charlie Brown would say “AAUGH!”
correct
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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if you want to help but cant spare any money, consider hosting the archive warrior to help them out.
Soulseek has been getting hammered too
Well whatever this is about needs to be Streisanded. Find out who is responsible and why, and then make it a household name.
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. We’ll take it with a grain of salt, and have put it to the Internet Archive for comment.
Many people have brought attention to the fact that SN_Blackmeta twitter group is very new and they don’t speak most languages particularly well, leading to the conclusion that maybe they’re just kids trying to take credit for it.
IT’S OFFICIALY OKAY TO DOXX SN_BLACKMETA.
They don’t have much aside from a recently created twitter group AFAIK.
Monolithic Archive systems like Internet Archive are cool, but we really should be pushing for better localized infrastructure usage for this kind of archiving, IMO.
That’s another potential defederated API to build out. I doubt it will end up developed, since most opensource devs are already busy on other projects.
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.
The companies that deserves it…
Nestle and Meta would be a wonderful start.
I think they’re responding to your question. The companies that deserve it are probably the ones behind the attack.
Right? Even from a purely selfish perspective, this is unwarranted and wanton whereas if you go after a company you can make money.
