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Public records are essential for accountability and transparency. 🗄️ In the latest post for our #VanishingCulture series, editor and journalist Maria Bustillos (@maria) explores the critical role of preserving these 'receipts' for future generations. Read more: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/08/vanishing-culture-keeping-the-receipts/
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We had a great time last week at our event on why Europe needs a #DigitalKnowledgeAct. Thank you to all the speakers and participants! For those who couldn't join us, the full recording of the event is available here: We’re thrilled to announce that Aruba will receive the 2024 Internet Archive Hero Award! 🇦🇼 Join us in celebrating this island nation’s groundbreaking efforts in digital preservation & making cultural heritage accessible worldwide: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/07/aruba-to-receive-2024-internet-archive-hero-award-for-groundbreaking-digital-heritage-initiatives/ Trying to recall details about a long-gone podcast (RIP #Dailysonic), I started looking through various pages using @internetarchive's Wayback Machine. There's a unique thrill in unearthing info long gone from the surface web, but what really gives me chills is finding forum posts and comments with my old username. It's like chasing a digital ghost and catching a glimpse. It reminds me of how much I've changed and how much remains the same. "Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history." Read the full story: https://wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B   > Several major record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony, and Capitol, sued the Internet Archive over its Great 78 Project, a digital archive of a niche collection of recordings of albums in the obsolete record format known as 78s, which was used from the 1890s to the late 1950s. The complaint alleges that the project “undermines the value of music.” Internet Archive is fantastic! Read about them and more in this BBC article. And I suggest you to donate some money to the archive. BBC article: Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ @internetarchive  @hehemrin I'm sure you are fully aware of this damaging ruling, which sadly, unless the US Supreme Court take this case they're on borrowed time as a organization. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@joeo10/113080664381467539 More in context if you scroll down the thread. Start here: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@joeo10/113080680465983569 “It’s the time of Orwell but with corporations." https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/ This is a must-read on the existential battle of @internetarchive If you wanna take action after, we've got a list of things to do at https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
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 @fight @internetarchive If people haven't downloaded the Adobe CS2 files they paid over $1K for the discs for nearly 20 years ago, by now, I kinda feel like that's on them. At the same time, I do think an official Internet Archive is a necessary thing and should be Internationally legally protected and curated. From Wired: "If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle." Join the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) & the Library Copyright Institute for a discussion on the recent Hachette v. Internet Archive decision and its impacts on Controlled Digital Lending and libraries. 📅 November 1 @ 1pm ET @daisy @weirdwriter @DraculaDaily I enjoy listening to audiobooks from @internetarchive They have over 19,000 audio books and poetry available free. What is fair use & why does it matter for creators? 🎧️ Listen in as experts Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi talk about their landmark book, "Reclaiming Fair Use"—now in its second edition! Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. You've no doubt read about fair use in the conversations around the publishers' lawsuit against our library. But what is fair use, and why does it matter in today's media landscape? Join us, along with Authors Alliance, for a book talk on RECLAIMING FAIR USE with authors and scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi:  I don't think MIT is freeloading from an ILL perspective-- The @internetarchive does ILL exchanges with 400+ libraries including MIT. And while MIT has gotten lots from us over the years, it is not in the top 25 libraries requesting. So I suspect they use ILL and document delivery services (big $/paper) it is just they don't requests that many papers. But that is not good news, really, we need researchers learning from each other. We need OPEN! Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
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   @internetarchive is Google helping you financially? I'm concerned about the increased load to your servers and bandwidth. New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review: "This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse." Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/ The idea of "lending" ebooks was always a bit strange. Especially as "Print on Demand" is becoming cheaper. @internetarchive @SLUBDresden also digitized Das Plakat, Typographische Mitteilungen, and a bunch of other art and design books: https://www.arthistoricum.net/en/themen/textquellen/gebrauchs-und-reklamegrafik
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@internetarchive Obviously nobody should ever buy any book published by Hatchette again, ever. If you own a bookstore and are reading this, please round up all Hatchette titles and return them for a refund. Bitorrent yes, Hatchette NO. Pirates are stronger than any court...  @internetarchive Ridiculous. The idea this court decides against your favor is proof of a democracy in decline. Thank you, Internet Archive.  @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org A sad day for libraries and internet user's rights, I hope the internet archive continues the good fight and gets this overturned eventually! |
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> defacement of our website via JS library
I sympathise with the good folks at archive.org, who do a fantastic and underappreciated job, and I don't mean to kick them while they're down.
But...
Using scripts in your website that your web team haven't audited, either directly or as part of a rabbithole of JS dependencies, opens you up to exactly this kind of shitfuckery.
Yet another good reason to #MakeJavaScriptOptional!
@internetarchive
@brewsterkahle
> defacement of our website via JS library
I sympathise with the good folks at archive.org, who do a fantastic and underappreciated job, and I don't mean to kick them while they're down.
But...
Using scripts in your website that your web team haven't audited, either directly or as part of a rabbithole of JS dependencies, opens you up to exactly this kind of shitfuckery.
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle
I hope the cybercriminals responsible for this face accountability by the justice system.
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle if you're encrypting passwords instead of hashing them, then you're doing it seriously wrong :neofox_snug_owo: