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Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Another one is close to biting the dust. Sci-Hub is out, Z-Lib got ran off like a dog and now IA is going to remove a host of books because these publishers just can't stop being money-hungry bastards.

This is why I support piracy. Knowledge should be free. To go after a nonprofit organization that just wants to make digital books and other formats accessible to everyone when majority of uploads can't be downloaded only borrowed, is just so devious and greedy.

I'm so tired of it. Laws around copyright and intellectual property need to be reformed. I feel so helpless :c

Link to blog post:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/

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[-] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

That only helps for shadow libraries whose operators are unknown. The Internet Archive, on the other hand, is a registered non-profit organisation, so how would they be able to hide themselves?

[-] AAA@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Just like the OG Pirate Bay. They closed down, and someone else, unknown, took over.

That's not unproblematic ofc as the new owner can do whatever they want without the oversight of the non-profit.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It'd be harder for IA since they have hundreds of PBs of hard drives. You need like a warehouse for it so it's a lot harder to hop around

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They could give the entire data as download and others could take over

[-] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's not so simple, unfortunately. The sheer amount of data they have - 212 PB as of December 2021 - makes it practically impossible for most people to mirror. Unless they physically hand over all 745 server nodes to another operator, there's no way of someone

There are some solutions to this - for example Archive-Team has proposed a method of mirroring the Internet Archive using distributed clients, although this method currently only has a fraction of the total dataset. Still, at this point in time, there's no real solution to resharing IA's data in the event they go under

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts -1 points 1 year ago

how would they be able to hide themselves?

It's literally in the name for a .onion website: hidden service

Tor hides the identity of servers just as much as it does for client users. So as long as the IA hosts in a country where publishers don't have jurisdiction, I believe they'll be fine