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[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 316 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You gotta be a special kind of sad to DDoS archive.org...

[–] TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works 172 points 5 months ago

..or paid well.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I bet the attack is coming from Big Hollywood

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 168 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Foreign government, moneyed interests, or domestic dipshits, taking all bets.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Barnes & Nobel going rouge.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

Really? I thought they were more of a chartreuse myself...

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago

Someone facing an enormous lawsuit who realized their tweets / claims were accessible and needs to buy time for their legal team.

-me a day or two ago

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Warner bros for 10k please

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[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 157 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Across social, economic, and political spectra, you can always tell the good guys from the bad guys by their stance on access to knowledge.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Had an argument with FIL where he argued his last child Is out of school so he votes against school taxes. I'm like you know that pays for the people you and your family will interact with. His response was "I want them as ignorant as me". Even as joke it's lacks wisdom. He just complained about doctors being uneducated an hour before.

[–] grrgyle 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ffffuck that's depressing.

I don't even have kids. I'm actually pretty against having them in general. But education is an existential requirement to a functioning democracy, and even a basic education is so broadening.

The only reason to want people ignorant is if you're trying to swindle them, which honestly benefits no one in the long run.

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

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 96 points 5 months ago (20 children)

A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.

Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…

[–] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

That’s what IPFS is for. It’s ideal for that kind of stuff

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 75 points 5 months ago (12 children)

if you have a spare corner in your server, host the archive warrior and help them out.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Spooling up 10x VM, I have 50 terabyte of ammo at 10gbit. Give me the one-liner install and run.

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[–] CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

That last sentence though...

  • **"The cyberattacks share the timeline with the legal battle Internet Archive is facing from US book publishers, claiming copyright infringement and seeking combined damages of hundreds of millions of dollars from all libraries." ** *
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[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 5 months ago

Stop it you fucking bastards!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

The Internet Archive needs to be distributed somehow. We can't have a single point of failure like this or we've learned nothing since Alexandria.

I've got several terabytes just laying around that I'd happily devote to ancient copies of web pages.

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[–] max@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They could do this with the bank of america instead

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 5 months ago

Describing a high intensity DDOS attack on one of the world's most important resources as simply "mean" is unironically one of the funniest things I've read this year.

Hope they get some support soon.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do they have any idea who’s perpetrating the attack?

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

If i go into conspiracy mode i would say record labels (they tent to have small peepees when it comes to, well everything) or some DICKtator country that doesnt like archived text of some sort.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it's an entity, my money would be on China just discovering it exists since it diametrically opposes its propaganda machine. But it could very well just be dark web shitheads whose seasonal drug binge just spiked up again, plenty of them to go around to make accusations and propaganda they know are false whom can't simply backtrack it because of archive.org and it doesn't require much to disrupt a still too largely implicit trust driven Internet.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago

Wasn’t there some controversy involving Internet Archive just recently?

Whoever’s behind this is trying to get rid of the fact that Internet Archive creates memory of the internet’s contents. Somebody wants to be able to control what people see on the internet.

Heck it could be Google doing it, since that would be in line with their recent push to change the way search works. Both of those act as components of a larger drive to control what people see and hear.

[–] NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 5 months ago

i honestly really hope this shit gets taken care of so internet archive can still keep going

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 months ago

I'm not good with computers and stuff. If somebody finds these scumbags who are ddos'ing internet archive I'd be very grateful. Also fucking them up in the process is also good.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Well Google search method was just leaked... Wonder if this picked that up before they pulled it.

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Is it possible that someone is conducting some operation and doesn’t want it to be randomly documented?

Some state maybe? Eh I just have a hard time thinking of motives for this attack

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