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I love the Internet Archive and frequently donate to them (2 times so far this year). What I'd love to see improved is the ability to be less "fragile". Curren

I love the Internet Archive and frequently donate to them (2 times so far this year). What I'd love to see improved is the ability to be less "fragile". Currently it's all located in the US and they have a huge focus on the US, both technically and politically. But why not try to replicate it all over the world? There seems to have been some smaller efforts inside the Internet Archive to make it more decentralized, but it feels like it should be a much bigger focus on it.

daniel_reetz 4y ago
It might not be widely known, but they have in the past had copies of the Archive in Alexandria and other locations. From my brief time there, I know that issues like these are of great concern to the Archive.
- hcs 4y ago
  I recall they'd announced the intention to set up a mirror in Canada, did that ever materialize? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us-surveillance-internet-archive-announces-mirror-in-canada/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us...
  - capableweb 4y ago
    They opened a new headquarters in Vancouver recently: - https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-internet-archive-opens-headquarters-meeting-space-for-the-tech-world https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-internet-archiv... (Jun 16, 2022) - On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774608 (219 points | 64 comments) But it seems like a strange location. Why not really branch out and meet the world instead of just sticking around North America?
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lwswl 4y ago
It would be harder to focus all the blame, and the hand of the law, on a single institution. Currently, only the IA will fall, and anyone who benefited from their seeming folly will have no issues.
jazzyjackson 4y ago
is there any group lobbying for the abolishment of all copyright? I'd like to donate to them.
- SpelingBeeChamp 4y ago
  Do you enjoy feature films? Video games? Television shows? Hardly any of that content would exist at the quality level you are accustomed to, without copyright. I say that as a producer of such content. If anyone could legally copy and distribute my work without my permission, I would not produce it, because there would be minimal financial incentive for me to do so. The current level of such unauthorized distribution - by which I primarily refer to the republication of my work by others, in its entirety, for their own profit - is staggering. And that is with the existence of copyright law. And it’s a huge disincentive from publishing more content. Both economically and because it’s demoralizing. It’s also a huge waste of time, as in order to be able to pay my employees and myself, I have to dedicate time to combating infringement-as-a-business. If copyright ceased to exist, I and nearly every other producer that I know, would find another line of work. Fortunately, copyright ceasing to exist is unlikely to happen. For starters, the wholesale abolition of copyright would violate the United States Constitution.
  - jazzyjackson 4y ago
    > Do you enjoy feature films? Video games? Television shows? not really no, I like stand up comedy, music, indie films, art that people make because they feel compelled to make art, not because they've done the math on the best return-on-investment My ideal funding model is kickstarteresque, raise X amount and then publish I consider copyright contradictory to free speech, I can say whatever I want unless it's already been said? what? > the wholesale abolition of copyright would violate the United States Constitution. That's what amendments are for. See also, "copyright is brain damage": https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc
    - Veen 4y ago
      > art that people make because they feel compelled to make art, not because they've done the math on the best return-on-investment How do you think such people buy food and heat their homes.
Animats 4y ago
They tried. There's a duplicate in Egypt.[1] But it hasn't been updated much since 2007. [1] https://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx https://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.as...

daniel_reetz 4y ago

It might not be widely known, but they have in the past had copies of the Archive in Alexandria and other locations. From my brief time there, I know that issues like these are of great concern to the Archive.

hcs 4y ago
I recall they'd announced the intention to set up a mirror in Canada, did that ever materialize? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us-surveillance-internet-archive-announces-mirror-in-canada/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us...
- capableweb 4y ago
  They opened a new headquarters in Vancouver recently: - https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-internet-archive-opens-headquarters-meeting-space-for-the-tech-world https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-internet-archiv... (Jun 16, 2022) - On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774608 (219 points | 64 comments) But it seems like a strange location. Why not really branch out and meet the world instead of just sticking around North America?
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lwswl 4y ago

It would be harder to focus all the blame, and the hand of the law, on a single institution. Currently, only the IA will fall, and anyone who benefited from their seeming folly will have no issues.

jazzyjackson 4y ago

is there any group lobbying for the abolishment of all copyright? I'd like to donate to them.

SpelingBeeChamp 4y ago
Do you enjoy feature films? Video games? Television shows? Hardly any of that content would exist at the quality level you are accustomed to, without copyright. I say that as a producer of such content. If anyone could legally copy and distribute my work without my permission, I would not produce it, because there would be minimal financial incentive for me to do so. The current level of such unauthorized distribution - by which I primarily refer to the republication of my work by others, in its entirety, for their own profit - is staggering. And that is with the existence of copyright law. And it’s a huge disincentive from publishing more content. Both economically and because it’s demoralizing. It’s also a huge waste of time, as in order to be able to pay my employees and myself, I have to dedicate time to combating infringement-as-a-business. If copyright ceased to exist, I and nearly every other producer that I know, would find another line of work. Fortunately, copyright ceasing to exist is unlikely to happen. For starters, the wholesale abolition of copyright would violate the United States Constitution.
- jazzyjackson 4y ago
  > Do you enjoy feature films? Video games? Television shows? not really no, I like stand up comedy, music, indie films, art that people make because they feel compelled to make art, not because they've done the math on the best return-on-investment My ideal funding model is kickstarteresque, raise X amount and then publish I consider copyright contradictory to free speech, I can say whatever I want unless it's already been said? what? > the wholesale abolition of copyright would violate the United States Constitution. That's what amendments are for. See also, "copyright is brain damage": https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc
  - Veen 4y ago
    > art that people make because they feel compelled to make art, not because they've done the math on the best return-on-investment How do you think such people buy food and heat their homes.

Animats 4y ago

They tried. There's a duplicate in Egypt.[1] But it hasn't been updated much since 2007. [1] https://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx https://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.as...