Did The Internet Archive Hack Themselves?

Something smells very, very wrong. Did the Internet Archive allow themselves to be hacked? Or... did they actually hack themselves? That's crazy... right? It's not as crazy as it might seem.

Let's go through the timeline of events and look at everything logically.

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[mike]

The internet archive is down? No problem, I can just go on the internet archive to see an internet archive version of the internet archive site.

[cherubinth]

Archiving and copyright are incompatible. The point of copyright is artificial scarcity.

[Wahinies]

So sad to see the archive go out like this, the wayback machine is supremely useful. Mindblowing stuff here

[mpd]

It does run in sticks. Ive know people there and have been in their "data center". I love the group but that place is held together by chicken wire and bubble gum. I dont say that as a pejorative. It's what you would expect from a low budget profitless internet library who's just trying to hack things together to save the internet. This is very sad

[sejtano]

every day that passes the more likely it seems that the archive library won't come back, back to the dark ages again, they have already removed like a million books, even before this

[DaxVJacobson]

The Internet Archive used to be one of my favorite websites, but it's been on life support for a while. I managed to download most of what I wanted years ago, and I even uploaded some missing issues to their magazine rack because I'm a completionist. Unfortunately, copyright laws are too strict and favor corporations. No matter how much money someone has, they couldn't save the Internet Archive; they'd just be a prime target for lawsuits.

[BrainSlugs]

The Internet Archive has had a copyright exemption since 2006 that they won in court... why would they lose a battle over copyright infringement claims?

[shaurz]

I suspect political reasons and covering up evidence

[markgomersbach]

So sad to see our version of the library of Alexadria burn down.

[ButaNgamuk]

Lesson learned: If you cannot learn from history, there is no reason to store history.

[fuzonzord]

Perhaps it's not anti-Israeli hackers, but hackers hired by media corporations to both take down the Archive and get information on uploaders of copyrighted content.

[nikjs]

i said this on day one. they are getting sued and the only way they can shift their content out from their servers without getting penalised for it is if it's inconveniently "stolen".

[thalamay]

Whatever they do, I just hope that the legal content survives in some form. Having tons of public domain books was extremely useful.

[LuisYomba]

...how to steal 99 petabytes: Chapter 1: the DDoS.🤔

[bonbonpony]

The saddest thing is that there's no mechanism of making a bakup copy of the archived websites (even selected ones), and soon everything might get irreversibly lost :(

[shazzz_land]

Simulate hackers in orders to prevent loss of it fully? They can now appeal the lost appeal money requests by using this scenario and such they will not go bankrupt and out of business. Quite smart!

Lets peer to peer the whole internet archive. Lets copy paste it on blockchain. Literally.

This is humanity's most valuable digital asset library followed by youtube.

This is modern day 'library of alexandria'.

[villagerjj]

Hear me out, what if more hackers go into the internet archive and backup the data before the other hackers delete it all

[alohm]

Smells like people wanting the internet to be temporary?

[Kobold]

If lawyers can't find pirated stuff in the archive, there is no pirated stuff in the archive 🤷‍♂

[Randy-nbfw]

i thought the reason for the 'hack' was kinda silly. not really the motive but the reasoning for targeting internet archive.