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

  • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
    100·
    3 months ago

    corporations attack anything that might challenge their ability to make a quick buck: everyone and everything else be damned. sadly the only way to overcome this kind of monster is a decentralized network of information hoarders. appealing lawsuits is just a bandaid.

    the internet archive needs to reorganize. as long as it makes itself into a target as a centralized org, it will also get shot at by soulless corporate husks. im envisioning moving everything onto ipfs, that way anyone can help host as much or little as they like.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      1916·
      3 months ago

      They don’t need to do anything so drastic. They just need to stop doing things that blatantly provoke legal attacks like this. Their “Emergency Covid Library” was a foolish stunt that is endangering their primary objective of information preservation, they wouldn’t have been sued if they’d just kept on carrying on as they were before.

      • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
        26·
        3 months ago

        the corporations dont care. why should the archive be under the pressure of the soulless suits at all? any “stunts” are just excuses for doing what they will do anyway: pick on anyone who doesnt bow to their petty whims.

        no, saying that this is the archive’s fault is so gross, and just says that you accept their bullying and blackmail as somehow moral

        archive should decentralize, that’s the only real solution imo

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        7·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, as soon as I read about that I realized that they fucked up.

        It was increadibly irresponsible by them at their current legal status.