The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.
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The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.
https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record/
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@internetarchive At various points in Chinese history, rulers came in who wanted all knowledge of previous rulers expunged. They went often to very ... extreme, let's call it ... measures to accomplish this erasure.
What saved the knowledge from extinction?
Essentially piracy. Copies of forbidden texts made and circulated in the underground, stored for when, inevitably, said ruler dies and the texts could be resurfaced.
Let me get my pirate's hat. I've got work to do.
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@zdl @internetarchive I do know that I store copies of all public domain works I use for my translations on my hard drive...
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@juergen_hubert @internetarchive I don't limit myself to public domain.
Stuff under copyright is at a great risk of vanishing when the "owner" lets it die off and/or vanish from neglect or pique or whatever.
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@zdl @juergen_hubert @internetarchive This. With overreaching Copyright laws and DRM everywhere (even fucking books!) it's more important than ever to free those pieces of culture and store them safely.
It's not a far fetch to assume the internet archive will lose its DMCA excemption once the next "check" is due. Download and save everything, preferably via their torrents.
