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Internet Archive is in danger (www.battleforlibraries.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Fuck.

I really hope someone gets hold of the data and shares it on p2p or otherwise. If all this data is deleted it would be equivalent to nuking pyramids or burning Picasso paintings.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, I'd say it would be much much worse than your examples. It would be erasing parts of history itself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fuck yes, we need to get our hands on this stuff for fucks sake. I have shit there I don’t even know I need yet

Can someone fucking near get their ass there and do a legendary copy paste operation on a massive scale

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Exactly. Losing Internet and digital history would create another dark ages for future historians. Everything we've done would just be gone.

If I had more money than humanly usable I would create a project that transcribes wikipedia or whatever onto stone/metal plates so it's not forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

...library... Alexandria...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Good luck, every day more than 1PB is uploaded to IA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That's one of the reasons why uploads to the Archive have torrents.

Now if they'd just fix the damn tracker..