A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)
So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons
@textfiles Is there a way to donate while the site is down?
@textfiles If you're interested in getting help dealing with DDoS attacks, I lead a program at #Fastly that is designed to help open source/ open internet projects with that kind of thing for free. It's called #FastForward. Please let us know if we can help! fastly.com/forward
@textfiles DDoS attacks exist because bits are priced per second even though the same fiber run in 1993 can carry unlimited traffic. Its business model inception. If you just made the carriers eat the (in reality almost non existant) cost of DDoS traffic there wouldnt be any.
You then wouldnt need the DDoS protection industry which has been the "protection racket" of the Internet. Ask Black Lotus how many sales calls they did right after DDoSing a potential customer's website.
It was 65%