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So here's a question... why do record labels, publishers, etc. suddenly have such a big interest in suing the Internet Archive in the past few years, despite the Archive having been around for many years doing basically the same things, and there being 0 chance that the IP companies didn't know about it?

Pues me acabo de enterar de que Wayback Machine @internetarchive tiene una extensión genial con versiones para todos los navegadores más usados. De la descripción:

"Retrocede en el tiempo para ver cómo ha cambiado un sitio web a lo largo de la historia de la Red, guarda sitios web, accede a páginas 404 no encontradas, o lee libros y artículos archivados."

Esta es la de Firefox (y derivados):

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

addons.mozilla.orgWayback Machine – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download Wayback Machine for Firefox. Welcome to the Official Internet Archive Wayback Machine Browser Extension! Go back in time to see how a website has changed through the history of the Web. Save websites, view missing 404 Not Found pages, or read archived books & papers.

Installed and started the ArchiveTeam Warrior. Very smooth experience.

It downloads stuff and puts it into the Internet Archive.

I took the "ArchiveTeam’s Choice" project and it chose public telegram channels. It's not taking a lot of bandwidth or memory or space or computing, as far as I can tell. It might take too much of my time and focus if I continue staring at the dashboard to try and figure out what all that stuff is.

warrior.archiveteam.org/

@internetarchive

warrior.archiveteam.orgArchiveTeam Warrior

'On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s.

If the labels' proposed second amended complaint is accepted by the court, damages sought in the case—which some already feared could financially ruin IA and shut it down for good—could increase to almost $700 million. (Initially, the labels sought about $400 million in damages.)' arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 #copyright #litigation #music #Internetarchive

Ars Technica · Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian saysBy Ashley Belanger

I just archived this web page on the #InternetArchive. I plan on doing that with every US government page that I come across with useful information!

#OrganicPhotovoltaics Research

"The benefits promised by #OPV #SolarCells include:

Low-cost manufacturing: Soluble organic molecules enable roll-to-roll processing techniques and allow for low-cost manufacturing.
Abundant materials: The wide abundance of building-block materials may reduce supply and price constraints.
Flexible substrates: The ability to be applied to flexible substrates permits a wide variety of uses."

energy.gov/eere/solar/organic-

Archived version:
archive.ph/jhrg9
#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #RenewablesNow

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The record labels that are suing the @internetarchive over the Great 78 Project are requesting that the damages rise to around $700 million if they win by adding 500 additional sound recordings. Not enough people are paying attention to what's at stake, including the #InternetArchive's very survival.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian saysBy Ashley Belanger

You Can Download Instructions for Over 6,800 Lego Sets For Free at the Internet Archive via My Modern Met [Shared]

Nothing beats the excitement of opening a brand new LEGO set and unloading those shiny bricks. Sometimes, that happy commotion leads to misplacing a key part of the building process—the instructions. If that's happened to you, then you may want to check out the Internet Archive. They have a database of over 6,800 LEGO set instructions for models from many different eras and types.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/08

#Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive , sound historian says

On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound #recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass #copyright #infringement through its #Great78Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian saysBy Ashley Belanger

"Home movies [...] ancestors of the videos we shot on camcorders and now capture on cell phones. We might think of each home movie as a pixel in a giant collective documentary spanning a hundred years, endless films picturing family, friends, travels, rituals and celebrations."

blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/va

blog.archive.orgVanishing Culture: No Film Left Unscanned | Internet Archive Blogs
Continued thread

Update. "EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker"
envirodatagov.org/press-releas

"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."

#JasonScott #InternetArchive #Discmaster #VintageSoftware

'Jason Scott, self-described "free-range archivist" at the Internet Archive, has announced the launch in full of DISCMASTER 2 — a platform that lets you search for, and view, individual files from a broad range of floppy disk and CD-ROM images stored on the platform, complete with automatic file conversion for modern browsers.'

hackster.io/news/jason-scott-l

Hackster.io · Jason Scott Launches DISCMASTER 2, a Semantic Search Engine for Classic CD-ROM CompilationsBy Gareth Halfacree