The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
A big blow to the Internet Archive.
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the best thing to do is download and torrent to preserve humanity's wealth in knowledge otherwise we risk losing immeasurable treasures to the sands of time
Personal recommendation:
qBittorrent- Repo
- Licensed under: GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0
can someone ELI5 what this is, exactly? A program to run on your computer that helps out the Internet Archive? How exactly is it helpful for the Internet Archive?
licenseless? 🤔
these sorts of things tend to sketch me out but giving a +1 as someone smarter than me will know if this is trustworthyI was about to say "of course you can trust it, it's from The Internet Archive", but the ArchiveTeam slogan is "We Are Going To Rescue Your Shit". Now I wonder if they're officially affiliated or not.
Archive Team often uses the Internet Archive to share the things they save and obviously they have a shared goal of saving a copy of everything ever made, but they aren't the same people. The Archive Team is a vigilante white hat hacker group (well, maybe a little bit grey), and running a Warrior basically means you're volunteering to be part of their botnet. When a website is going to be shut down, they'll whip together a script and push it out to the botnet to try to grab as much of the dying site as they can, and when there's more downtime they have some other projects, like trying to brute force all those awful link shorteners so that when they inevitably die, people can still figure out where it should've pointed to.
