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The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously (blog.archive.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA

This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we're fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.

the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they'll undoubtedly face in the future

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

I have a question. Would it be better for me to donate money to the Internet Archive, or would it be more beneficial long term to purchase a NAS and torrent as much stuff from TIA that I can?

[-] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 days ago

why not both? small donations to the IA pile up. also the IA has several petabytes of data so it would be difficult to mirror that completely but sharing parts you're interested in (even on the small scale) can be immensely useful.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

I think that's a good idea. I'm planning on cancelling my $3/month discord subscription so money can go twords TIA instead
I have about a spare laptop I can setup to be a seeder in the closet or sthm

[-] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Do you use the archive? If not, it's likely you'll want that storage space for something else eventually. Have you priced out a NAS? $20 gives you a clean conscience, $1500 gives you a cool torch that you'll have to pass if called upon, would you take that action?