Idk if this is the right comm but whatever, this should be stickied
Internet archive taking a lot of fire from all over at the moment, this one’s by corporate record labels.
I know petitions dont do much, but there’s not a lot else that we can do for them other than donate, so come and sign the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive
I can’t stress how valuable Internet Archive and their magical Wayback Machine are.
Fuck recording labels and publishers trying to burn down the digital library of alexandria
probably remove the “recruited_by_id=xxxx” from the link, it’s a tracking parameter that will tie others who click the link from here to your change.org acct
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It’s still in your URL. You can edit it.
Here is the non-recruited_by ID for the folks that have commented that they would prefer it. https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive
This is over the fucking 78rpm collection? Over 90yo shellac recordings???
wait why is the way back machine specifically at issue here?
because having to pay RIAA, etc, 700 million dollars in damages would probably outright kill the internet archive and therefore the wayback machine. They are rallying people around the most popular core of their services.
I just found out today that they have the old versions of macOS which is basically the only place I can find them… f’n amazing
If Luigi signed this it might have a chance
Hang on a sec, I need to go dig my pink kitty cat ears hat out of storage.
