Internet Archive, è una libreria noprofit che conserva anche la memoria storica di internet oltre film, audio, giochi ed è sotto attacco da giorni.

Internet Archive è tuttora non utilizzabile, è possibile seguire quanto sta accadendo su mastodon dove hanno una propria istanza: @internetarchive

LE PERSONE LIBERE LEGGONO LIBERAMENTE

DIFENDIAMO INTERNET ARCHIVE!

#internetArchive #Libreria #Internet

The bloke at the bottle shop saw my #InternetArchive t-shirt and said something about the archive.is fiasco. But I think now that perhaps he wasn't asking for a full conversation about Australia's copyright changes this year. Oops.

Update. But are #publishers right to worry that #AI companies can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine in order to train their tools? No, says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, and monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for and actively respond to new scraping patterns as they emerge."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism
@internetarchive

📰 News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

#ai #aiscraping #internetarchive #lostmedia

Update. It's happening. "News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

@mmasnick is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone…We’re sacrificing the historical record not because of proven harm, but because publishers are worried about what might happen. That’s a hell of a tradeoff."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@internetarchive

"#News #publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

PS: I'm one who thinks AI training on copyrighted content is #FairUse and (separate point) even desirable in the case of academic research.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113443473594224752

But this kind of training will create huge collateral damage --indirectly through publisher action -- if it diminishes the @internetarchive.

#Copyright #Journalism

Update. It's happening. "News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

@mmasnick is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone…We’re sacrificing the historical record not because of proven harm, but because publishers are worried about what might happen. That’s a hell of a tradeoff."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@internetarchive

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

So, fertig! Ich hab die beiden Fassungen von Microsoft Word 6.0 für Windows - also Vollversion und Update - vollständig geprüft und ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Die beiden Varianten unterscheiden sich lediglich im ersten Datenträger. Zum Download gibt es nun sämtliche Disketten Images, Scans in 300dpi, sowie perfekte KryoFlux Streams:

https://archive.org/details/ms-word_60_de

Viel Spaß damit! 😉

#Microsoft #Word #Office #Windows #Win311 #90er #90s #Retro #RetroComputing #Diskette #FloppyDisk #IBMPC #16Bit #InternetArchive #KryoFlux

So, fertig! Ich hab die beiden Fassungen von Microsoft Word 6.0 für Windows - also Vollversion und Update - vollständig geprüft und ins Internet Archive hochgeladen. Die beiden Varianten unterscheiden sich lediglich im ersten Datenträger. Zum Download gibt es nun sämtliche Disketten Images, Scans in 300dpi, sowie perfekte KryoFlux Streams:

https://archive.org/details/ms-word_60_de

Viel Spaß damit! 😉

#Microsoft #Word #Office #Windows #Win311 #90er #90s #Retro #RetroComputing #Diskette #FloppyDisk #IBMPC #16Bit #InternetArchive #KryoFlux

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

Fixing Links with the Wayback Machine
#WordPress #InternetArchive

https://automattic.com/2026/02/04/wayback-machine-wordpress-link-fixer/

GitHub: https://github.com/a8cteam51/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer

Fixing Links with the Wayback Machine
#WordPress #InternetArchive

https://automattic.com/2026/02/04/wayback-machine-wordpress-link-fixer/

GitHub: https://github.com/a8cteam51/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer

Democracy? What Democracy? It's all about the old mighty cold dollar... ->

"When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.

The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages.

Major publishers – including The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today – have confirmed they’re ending the Internet Archive’s access to their content.

While publishers say they support the archive’s preservation mission, they argue unrestricted access creates unintended consequences, exposing journalism to AI crawlers and members of the public trying to skirt their paywalls.

Yet, publishers don’t simply want to lock out AI crawlers. Rather, they want to sell their content to data-hungry tech companies. Their back catalogues of news, books and other media have become a hot commodity as data to train AI systems.

https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968

#OpenWeb #Media #InternetArchive #News #Newspapers #Journalism

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116015180016712361

I have been thinking for quite some time that we need a decentralized network for preserving public domain works. The #InternetArchive is important, but they are one single American organization and thus vulnerable (and the fact that they are playing fast and loose with copyright sometimes doesn't help). We need to spread those works out more.