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The Internet Archive is an important resource and needs to be saved. (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not a good idea for three reasons:

the assumption that this will stop lawsuits is very generous, especially when we consider that there are other countries than the US that have lawyers and IP too
putting such an important task in the hands of a government that might be controlled by whatever extremist possible in the future is a bad idea; who controls the past, controls the future and parties could delete parts of the past at their will
a less dystopian thought: future governments might simply cut the funding or restrict the archive to US content only because "why shouod they pay for other contries' history?"

A legislative approach that protects what the archive does would be a much more reasonable approach.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Totally agree with you. These things need to be preserved in some way like physical media.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

who controls the past, controls the future

I think the more relevant bit here is that whoever controls the present, controls the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very fair point, that nails it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kinda sounds like we need a decentralized, feterated internet archive for at least each nation and maybe individuals... Or maybe I just want to federate almost everything ^^'

Edit: found a discussion here on that topic in the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes this is the answer. Split the data into many little chunks and have as many nodes as want to be involved acting as redundancies on the data.

Frequently publish the factor of safety in terms of data redundancy.

Would this be an application for blockchain or some other technology?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and since our government doesn’t work, it’d be better for open source, transparent efforts by the people. That also reminds the assholes in govt that the internet “content” is not owned by those who built machines or the government’s investment in DARPAnet, but by the people. Turn it all into a blockchain or something so there are copies or at least fragments on a ton of computers around the world and is indelible.