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Legislation needs to be crafted to specifically give IA legal protections for many of its activities. In the event IA loses its case, we must quickly step in t

Legislation needs to be crafted to specifically give IA legal protections for many of its activities. In the event IA loses its case, we must quickly step in to safeguard their data and establish a successor entity.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Legislation needs to be crafted to specifically give IA legal protections for many of its activities Why? Within certain scopes, sure. But the IA seems keen on pushing boundaries. That’s fine, but it is a strategic decision to stand on perilous ground.
- echelon 3y ago
  > Why? Many things that we do are not protected by constitutional rights. Because of weak protections, those activities are subject to be attacked or go away entirely at any time. LGBT marriage and abortion are two examples that get significant press coverage, but there are so many activities that deserve protections. Archiving the history of our species, as long as it fits within certain parameters, should be fundamentally protected. It's important for the future to understand us [1]. The internet is one of the most observable means of taking measurement of our lives and zeitgeist. Keeping snapshots is important. [1] I don't think this is a self-important delusion. I also don't think it's impossible for this reasoning to coexist with statements that decry social media as drivel and garbage. Our outputs can be both valuable and "worthless" at the same time.
rchaud 3y ago
Legislation is crafted in the interests of those who would prefer IA didn't exist. We need to have a Bittorrent style P2P system to ensure IA content survives and remains shareable in some form if their main storage goes down or ends up acquired/controlled by some untrustworthy actor.
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  Every item in the Internet archive has a torrent file served by the Archive. A list of every item can be retrieved. One could, if motivated, build the equivalent of an ArchiveTeam warrior; instead of grabbing content for archival, you would start up, query for the least available items, retrieve, and then seed the swarm (limited by local disk space available). I maintain a copy of the Internet Archive catalog/item metadata in Backblaze B2, it’s fairly lightweight (comparatively). You’ll need ~500PB of coordinated decentralized storage to ensure high durability, but can still achieve a somewhat favorable outcome with ~220PB.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    Good to know! Their magazine archive is amazing, so I kay try to maintain a seed for some of those categories.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Legislation needs to be crafted to specifically give IA legal protections for many of its activities Why? Within certain scopes, sure. But the IA seems keen on pushing boundaries. That’s fine, but it is a strategic decision to stand on perilous ground.

echelon 3y ago
> Why? Many things that we do are not protected by constitutional rights. Because of weak protections, those activities are subject to be attacked or go away entirely at any time. LGBT marriage and abortion are two examples that get significant press coverage, but there are so many activities that deserve protections. Archiving the history of our species, as long as it fits within certain parameters, should be fundamentally protected. It's important for the future to understand us [1]. The internet is one of the most observable means of taking measurement of our lives and zeitgeist. Keeping snapshots is important. [1] I don't think this is a self-important delusion. I also don't think it's impossible for this reasoning to coexist with statements that decry social media as drivel and garbage. Our outputs can be both valuable and "worthless" at the same time.

rchaud 3y ago

Legislation is crafted in the interests of those who would prefer IA didn't exist. We need to have a Bittorrent style P2P system to ensure IA content survives and remains shareable in some form if their main storage goes down or ends up acquired/controlled by some untrustworthy actor.

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Every item in the Internet archive has a torrent file served by the Archive. A list of every item can be retrieved. One could, if motivated, build the equivalent of an ArchiveTeam warrior; instead of grabbing content for archival, you would start up, query for the least available items, retrieve, and then seed the swarm (limited by local disk space available). I maintain a copy of the Internet Archive catalog/item metadata in Backblaze B2, it’s fairly lightweight (comparatively). You’ll need ~500PB of coordinated decentralized storage to ensure high durability, but can still achieve a somewhat favorable outcome with ~220PB.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Good to know! Their magazine archive is amazing, so I kay try to maintain a seed for some of those categories.