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> My thinking is that frequent partner The Library of Congress can put a stop to this by buying the Internet Archive. Make it a government body and protect all
by mkl95 3y ago
> My thinking is that frequent partner The Library of Congress can put a stop to this by buying the Internet Archive. Make it a government body and protect all that digital content. I think these lawyers may be less inclined to sue the US Federal government.
This is the opposite approach of what I would consider a potential solution. The information should be stored in a system expensive enough to sabotage that no government will consider it. Data should be replicated as many times as possible and replicas should be as physically distributed as possible.
- jancsika 3y agoUnfortunately, that's the opposite of what I would consider a practical solution. The system you describe doesn't exist. If it did then Sci-hub would already be using it. Instead, Sci-hub is subject to essentially the same risks of takedown as IA.
- asrsgiaonionio 3y ago[dead]
- fatfingerd 3y agoI think they should focus more on signing structured data and indexes so people can just exchange IA content however they like and know it hasn't been tampered with. There's not much a state will be able to do as long as they rotate keys, etc, so there are just state demanded revocations which can be ignored.
- Pannoniae 3y agoOr... host it in a country which doesn't care about this kind of stuff.
- masfuerte 3y agoIf the US cares enough (and they have a long track record of being irrationally overprotective of IP) then the IA becomes a bargaining chip for whatever shithole it's hosted in. It's not a long term solution.