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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)

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[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 138 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Losing the internet archive would be such a huge loss... I really hope they have a backup plan in case things go bad legally.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah, it's definitely going to be one of the most important things to have ever happened in human history, if it does.

[–] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Library of Alexandria burning down for the modern era

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Damn. I hadn’t even thought of it. Isn’t it crazy that some people among us would see things like that burn and not even wince. Hell, some would even celebrate. Our lives are so short. It blows my mind that anyone would want to destroy something like that for any reason.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

technically alexandria was probably a rather modest library, but yeah, as far as the expression goes.

[–] Stright@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

All of the files on the archive have torrent's available. If they just release all of the torrent files or their URL's, people can start seeding and downloading them. It would be a lot of data though.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Given the volume of data involved, I wonder if one of those fancy new distributed data formats could be used.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A blockchain?

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I'm loathe to concede that yes, lbry does rely on blockchain tech.