Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA
This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we’re fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.
the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they’ll undoubtedly face in the future
10 TB? Is that not multiple hard-drives? Can you access the text-files while you host/serve them? Or are they compressed as zip files?
I got a NAS with 24GB, that’s spread around three harddrives, yes. The files are a binary container format, it’s described here. So I could unpack them, but I have no reason to, really. Much easier to get the individual books I want. Each torrent is usually about 250GB, but some of the older ones are much larger or smaller