Internet Archive (@archive.org)
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Who would downvote something like this, without leaving a comment to explain why!?

    Sometimes I wish I could see that info, in rare circumstances like this.

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    I was briefly able to get to https://archive.org/donate - I’m going to kick them a few bucks and recommend anyone else who can afford to also do so.

    There’s also this, copied verbatim from the site:

    Other ways to donate Mail your donation to:
Internet Archive
C/O Philanthropy Department
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94118-2116

    In order to ensure you receive an acknowledgement of your gift as quickly as possible, please include an email address with your mailed donation. We regret that we cannot accept cash or check donations in currencies other than USD.

    Stock or Wire Transfer:
If you would like to make a stock or wire transfer gift, please contact us at donations@archive.org

    I say we go full Streisand effect on whatever dickhead is trying to censor them.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      What I like about Lemmy is, I can see not only score, but also up AND downvotes. On reddit, I can see the score. On Lemmy, If I see you have a score 7, I can also see you have 10 upvotes and 3 downvotes. 10-3=7, and I can get a better idea if a comment is controversial, or popular.

      Your post, that I’m replying to has 69 (nice) upvotes, and zero downvotes. THIS IS HOW IT MUST STAY!!!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Reddit used to show downvotes, sort by controversial, and hide by variable net downvote totals.

        Then someone in admin decided it wasn’t good for business, so all the features got phased out.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Not surprising. They archive information that powerful people would rather we forget monetise.

      FTFY

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      I doubt this has to do with “powerful people”. A DDOS attack does not remove anything from the net, but only makes it temporarily hard to reach.

      There are firms that specialize in suppressing information on the net. They use SEO tricks to get sites down-ranked, as well as (potentially fraudulent) copyright and GDPR request.

      There must be any number of “little guys” who hate the Internet Archive. They scrape copyrighted stuff and personal data “without consent” and even disregard robots.txt. Lemmy is full of people who think that people should go to jail for that sort of thing.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    So the recording industry thugs hired out a job. Not the first time.

  • anticurrent@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I very rarely go to the internet archive, but the moment I needed to get a safe copy of very old software, shitty people decided to DDOS it. shitty humans. find better hobbies losers

  • Tachikoma741@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Damn. I guess this is why we can’t have nice things.

    I guess I’ll take this opportunity mention if one cannot make a monetary donation to IA. You can always help them out by help seed some of their torrents. I’d appreciate it at least :P

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I was wondering what was going on. The Internet Archive is an incredibly important asset beyond archiving websites because it has things like the Prelinger Collection, which is the largest archive of industrial, educational and other ephemeral films, which would be only accessible via commercial sites like YouTube otherwise.

    And that’s really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the audio, video and texts available.

    I hope this gets resolved soon.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    the internet archive is a very useful tool for countering the “official story” whenever the powers that be are lying.

    If you’re able, I hope you donate to the internet archive. There’s a lot of horrible people from all over youtube that like to erase their old videos to help control their own narrative.

      • Nziom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        But they have back up to the entire thing am pretty sure any change would be detectable if a dictator is behind this then he’s extremely stupid

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          If the internet archive goes offline we can just view a cached version of it at the internet archi OH NO!