The Internet Archive should have realized earlier that they've set up shop within hostile territory.
I would support the IA more if they would setup their foundation, hardware and hosting in a more neutral country towards censorship. Especially given the current (and never ending) hostile administration.
Initiatives like this that preserve culture exceeding the knowledge of societies should be treated like museums, not like companies. And American corporatism will eventually win against the IA. Even when their fight continues for the next 10 years in the legal system, they won't be able to win.
From an operational standpoint it would make much more sense to relocate somewhere where both digital censorship is not happening and where DMCA and other means do not apply. And for that you have to make the financial structure of the company unsueable, like the mega tech corporations effectively are setup with their exploitations of licensing fees in Netherlands, residencies in Ireland or official headquarters not in the US, or holdings on the Cayman Islands.
Additionally I would love to cohost the things I care about, but there is effectively no easy option right now. All the science related books that I care about are lost in their crappy search interface. And most of the collections are in the league of cephFS-sized clusters, making them unusable for most potential cohosters. And I'm saying that as someone that has around 600TB at home available for that kind of stuff.
It would be much better if there was an option to "build your own torrent cohost" where you can opt-in to specific media or websites/domains you want to keep and to help share/contribute as bandwidth and storage.
Right now for that purpose, kiwix is a much better alternative in my opinion, because you just download the archived files for each website, add them to a folder and that's it. I wish the web archive had something like that.
They should make it easy for libraries to maintain complete mirrors of the archive, and to make sure copies exist in at least three or four independent legal jurisdictions.
There’s no other way this sort of project can be considered an archive.
They have such tools, thanks to the old INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK project. The problem arrives when trying to locate libraries with a spare 250PB of storage available.
Here is a link to the lawsuit in relation to the petition on courtlistener; anyone can follow the case as it continues onward.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67687248/umg-recordings...
The Internet Archive should have realized earlier that they've set up shop within hostile territory.
I would support the IA more if they would setup their foundation, hardware and hosting in a more neutral country towards censorship. Especially given the current (and never ending) hostile administration.
Initiatives like this that preserve culture exceeding the knowledge of societies should be treated like museums, not like companies. And American corporatism will eventually win against the IA. Even when their fight continues for the next 10 years in the legal system, they won't be able to win.
From an operational standpoint it would make much more sense to relocate somewhere where both digital censorship is not happening and where DMCA and other means do not apply. And for that you have to make the financial structure of the company unsueable, like the mega tech corporations effectively are setup with their exploitations of licensing fees in Netherlands, residencies in Ireland or official headquarters not in the US, or holdings on the Cayman Islands.
Additionally I would love to cohost the things I care about, but there is effectively no easy option right now. All the science related books that I care about are lost in their crappy search interface. And most of the collections are in the league of cephFS-sized clusters, making them unusable for most potential cohosters. And I'm saying that as someone that has around 600TB at home available for that kind of stuff.
It would be much better if there was an option to "build your own torrent cohost" where you can opt-in to specific media or websites/domains you want to keep and to help share/contribute as bandwidth and storage.
Right now for that purpose, kiwix is a much better alternative in my opinion, because you just download the archived files for each website, add them to a folder and that's it. I wish the web archive had something like that.
They should make it easy for libraries to maintain complete mirrors of the archive, and to make sure copies exist in at least three or four independent legal jurisdictions.
There’s no other way this sort of project can be considered an archive.
They have such tools, thanks to the old INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK project. The problem arrives when trying to locate libraries with a spare 250PB of storage available.
Oh, and all we have are tapes and hard drives to archive things...