News Internet Archive facing sustained cyber attacks — nonprofit struggles with 'impactful, targeted, adaptive' DDoS campaign

[Admin]

The Internet Archive has been facing sustained cyber attacks since Sunday. At the same time, it is being sued by the US book publishing and US recording industries associations.

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[NeoMorpheus]

Why would anyone attack this particular site?

What do they gain?

Indeed, this is why we cant have nice things.

 

[peachpuff]

Why would anyone attack this particular site?

It was probably Nintendo, archive.org has all of their roms for download...

 

[NeoMorpheus]

It was probably Nintendo, archive.org has all of their roms for download...

That might true, given how <Mod Edit> bad nintendo is, but the worst part is that people keep giving them (nintendo) money.

 

[umeng2002_2]

That's not even the good archive site since they respond to take-down requests. Hardly and archive.

 

[bit_user]

That's not even the good archive site since they respond to take-down requests. Hardly and archive.

They can't just flout the law. They are a legal entity and we would have zero archive, if they tried that. Trust me, even responding to take-down requests is better than having no wayback machine, at all.

Wayback machine has saved my butt on multiple occasions. That's why I donate to them, every year. You really need to support what things you value, or else the world will definitely be a worse place.

 

[King_V]

Why would anyone attack this particular site?

What do they gain?

Indeed, this is why we cant have nice things.

Absolutely ANYONE who would be able to benefit from the elimination of historical records.

Absolutely ANYONE, who would benefit from being able to say "that never happened" or "I never did that."

 

[umeng2002_2]

They can't just flout the law. They are a legal entity and we would have zero archive, if they tried that. Trust me, even responding to take-down requests is better than having no wayback machine, at all.

Wayback machine has saved my butt on multiple occasions. That's why I donate to them, every year. You really need to support what things you value, or else the world will definitely be a worse place.

archive.today
archive.is
archive.ph
archive.li
archive.vn
archive.fo
archive.md

This is the good one, and needs multiple top level domains because so many people try taking it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

 

[bit_user]

archive.today
archive.is
archive.ph
archive.li
archive.vn
archive.fo
archive.md

This is the good one, and needs multiple top level domains because so many people try taking it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

I tried one website that Internet Archive had snapshotted numerous times, prior to spammers taking the domain. This web site was very important to me and archive.today has zero snapshots of it. So, that's only one datapoint, but it's one that was very meaningful to me and, as far as I'm concerned, it means archive.today is far from a total replacement for Internet Archive.

P.S. I'm not disclosing which website because it was for the business previously run by a family member and nothing to do with the content it contained.

 

[umeng2002_2]

True, the archive.today doesn't really do much in the way of snap shots; but you can archive a site on demand.

 

[USAFRet]

Why would anyone attack this particular site?

What do they gain?

Indeed, this is why we cant have nice things.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

I tried one website that Internet Archive had snapshotted numerous times, prior to spammers taking the domain. This web site was very important to me and archive.today has zero snapshots of it. So, that's only one datapoint, but it's one that was very meaningful to me and, as far as I'm concerned, it means archive.today is far from a total replacement for Internet Archive.

P.S. I'm not disclosing which website because it was for the business previously run by a family member and nothing to do with the content it contained.

Archive Today is geared towards users manually saving websites for their own needs. In general I find it has an exceptional userbase for saving news articles.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Archive Today is geared towards users manually saving websites for their own needs. In general I find it has an exceptional userbase for saving news articles.

Yes, particularly right before some world/ political events might change a site for various reasons.

The way back machine has helped me find old info in a pinch simply because their snapshots are much more broad.