am 27 | furry & retro tech | very bi | operator of @UCVRCG
five hundred thousand books were just removed from the internet archive and if their appeal doesn't work out, that'll be it. there'll be little legal precedent left for IA to utilize against what might be the watershed lawsuit of digital preservation.
horrible. capitalist shitheads exerting control over the best library the modern day has allowed us. back your stuff up.
edit: linked article, my bad.
Other than moltovs and bricks, what else can we do?
If you have a little technical skill, you can seed torrents!
See torrents under section ia for internet archive content specifically:
Here's readings on how you can provide bandwidth mirrors for shadow libraries:
This tool is to help make contributing your bandwidth to shadow libraries easier and more effective:
Not to be that snake, but the tool you provided hasn't been updated in 2 years... That said, I can absolutely roll my own with what you provided! Thank you!
oops, yeah, it looks like that tool's broken. It does look like there's a torrent list generator on the same anna's archive torrent page anyways! anyways, happy seeding :)
