They’re claiming that this is a DDoS attack but multiple users have posted replies with that message so it seems that they might be either lying or incompetent.
It’s worth nothing that archive.org is unrelated to other archive services like archive.ph and has been known to support leftist causes and remove archived pages to that end.
All I remember about archive.org is that Taylor Lorenz has family that works there, and consequently her tweets were never archived by that site. We'll see if her substack gets archived going forward, but some how I doubt it.
In addition to uploading it’s required to borrow books and access some files. There are also social features like reviews which can be useful for finding out if there are issues with a file before downloading.
Knowing how eager companies are to sue them out of existence, I can't imagine thinking creating an account could be a good idea unless they absolutely needed to.
It does look like the hackers have got information about what you've downloaded as well. This doesn't bode well for anyone who downloaded non-free content from the website because if the hackers can get that information, so can the IP owners via legal means. Anyone who opened an account and downloaded said content should be sweating right now.
Anyone who opened an account and downloaded said content should be sweating right now.
Only if they went on to share it again. Otherwise there is no conceivable scenario that IP holders would go after the receivers, let alone be successful at it.
Even back in the Napster lawsuits, they were only going after people who had shared songs.
They’re claiming that this is a DDoS attack but multiple users have posted replies with that message so it seems that they might be either lying or incompetent.
It’s worth nothing that archive.org is unrelated to other archive services like archive.ph and has been known to support leftist causes and remove archived pages to that end.
Memory hold the forever archive - noice
All I remember about archive.org is that Taylor Lorenz has family that works there, and consequently her tweets were never archived by that site. We'll see if her substack gets archived going forward, but some how I doubt it.
I didn't even know it had a log in feature. Is that for uploaders? I only consume.
In addition to uploading it’s required to borrow books and access some files. There are also social features like reviews which can be useful for finding out if there are issues with a file before downloading.
I don't have an account there thankfully
Knowing how eager companies are to sue them out of existence, I can't imagine thinking creating an account could be a good idea unless they absolutely needed to.
It does look like the hackers have got information about what you've downloaded as well. This doesn't bode well for anyone who downloaded non-free content from the website because if the hackers can get that information, so can the IP owners via legal means. Anyone who opened an account and downloaded said content should be sweating right now.
Only if they went on to share it again. Otherwise there is no conceivable scenario that IP holders would go after the receivers, let alone be successful at it.
Even back in the Napster lawsuits, they were only going after people who had shared songs.
Quite a lot of big names in the writing world (Who are in the public domain now) have been throwing a lot of shade towards them.
Seems like archiving is looking to take on a new model - and that's NOT a good thing!
I went back and changed my password, took over 40 minutes for it to all happen though.
So it is slow.
I'd bet anything it was hacked by people (secretly) representing the big media companies.
did people even have passwords for that site?
Seems like it was some Palestine freedom fighters?!?!
The Archive team themselves are on it and seems to have fixed the JavaScript library issue that was were the problem was coming from.