Internet Archive (Archive.org) being sued by copyrightists.
I hate how totally out of my hands this is. I use the IA for a lot of stuff, especially the wayback machine. FUCK YOU PUBLISHERS YOU JUST CAN'T LET THE POOR HAVE ANYTHING CAN YOU!
Almost like they need to scrape as much profits as they can because their old methods aren't yielding as much anymore
i'm in a race against time to download as many 90s EDM sample packs as my shitty internet connection will allow before it goes down
Look all I'm saying is I could beat mewtwo in a fistfight
Owls are flying type, you just made my job easier, bucko :owl-wink:
Unfortunately, 252 SpA Life Orb Mewtwo Psystrike vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Noctowl: 415-489 (121.7 - 143.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Deadheads will save it somehow. Every Grateful Dead show is uploaded there. Don't fuck with Deadheads
Losing the Internet Archive will be a terrible event but bit torrent will live on.
Centralization is amazing for efficiency, decentralization for resiliency. One day we will find the right balance. Future archive projects need to incorporate some form of federation, it won't solve everything but we will learn a lot by moving in that direction.
Hmm... I think they are being too optimistic, a lot of the techbro/4chan culture intersects with anti-government/piracy/independent-liberatarian shit. While most of these are bad on their own and certainly in principle, IMO they are underestimating how quickly they can get this section fo the right wing to basicaly do left wing "activism" by default and for the wrong reasons.
I mean really do they think its BLM woke leftists running hack groups and torrent sites and not the absolute bottom of the barrel righ wing online chuds? Do they take their support for granted and believe these chuds will actually give up their treats for absolutely nothing in return?
Anyway I would expect a resurgence of underground culture of the piracy(late 2000s) peak era before Americans literally relying on nothing but Russian torrent sites.
:bateman-ontological: me knowing that it’s perfectly justifiable to chuck a cinder block at the leader of a publishing company’s legal team
Be your own archive so you can upload it to whatever is the current unwhacked whack a mole without degregation.
