Internet Archive / Wayback Machine is offline

[wreeder]

Just a note, their X account is showing that the system is temporarily down.
https://x.com/internetarchive Let's hope it comes back.

 

[wreeder]

I should add, they are the defendant in multiple lawsuits from publishers and copyright holders for the distribution of copyrighted works without permission. And they are often the target of DDOS attacks from hackers. So I guess we wait.

 

[pware]

There was a news report just a day ago that the Internet Archive was under a DDOS attack and was forced to shut down. The report stated that no data had been damaged or stolen.

 

[lackoo11111]

There was a news report just a day ago that the Internet Archive was under a DDOS attack and was forced to shut down. The report stated that no data had been damaged or stolen.

It was also hacked . 31 million users data was stolen .

 

[wreeder]

True, but that doesn't change their legal troubles. I have seen many of the books they once hosted have now been marked as removed after publishers have filed lawsuits. That combined with them losing a recent court case where the legal argument they depend on to operate was struck down. The judge found the concept of a digital library loaning digital copies of real world books, recordings and other real world assets to be not the same as a library loaning a real copy of a book they purchased from the publisher.

 

[JAGG]

I have seen plenty of Trainz content, which I could restore using their very useful services, so I believe for victory of common sense

 

[wreeder]

It looks like the Wayback Machine is back in provisional, read-only manner.

Wayback Machine

t.co

There is a warning that it needs further maintenance and may go down again without warning. This is only the archive of webpages. Everything else is still off line.

 

[rwk]

What I hate is that copyright holders won't provide legal ways to watch 80's MTV broadcasts, and 1980's Casey Kasem AT40 countdowns on demand, yet they go after people hosting them. I just checked, and yes, besides Wayback, the Internet Archive is down. Is that due to the attack or the legal problem? It's like when people upload Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune episodes to YouTube and a while later they are taken down because a big company like Sony sniffed them out and complained to YT and YT took them down and perhaps banned the person who uploaded them from the site. I guess there is no way to share copyrighted stuff with the world without the big companies finding out. And the plaintiffs, the copyright holders usually prevail in court cases. They have big lawyers. The public gets screwed from rare hard to find content simply because big companies want to "protect their rights".

 

[oldman777]

Internet Archive already works for me, I can't log in to my account only.

 

[ricomon35]

Latest news RE the hack and what's coming next for the archive >>> NPR - Technology - Hackers steal information from 31 million Internet Archive users