If You have any video game shit you want to save on Internet Archive/Wayback Machine do so now - Chuck Wendig Breaks The Internet

Further down the tweet thread:

Then there’s the concern that the lawsuit asks for potentially debilitating financial damages from the archive. If it were true that the publishers claimed $150,000 for each of the millions of books digitized, that could certainly paralyze the entire nonprofit organization.

But in fact, the lawsuit seeks financial damages only for the sharing of 127 books under copyright, including titles like Gone Girl, A Dance with Dragons, and The Catcher in the Rye. If the court awards the plaintiffs the maximum amount provided under the law, the most the Internet Archive would have to pay would be $19 million — essentially equivalent to one year of operating revenue, according to IA tax documents. That’s a huge setback, but for the IA, a tech nonprofit that relies heavily on grants and public donations, it’s not the major death blow it might seem to be.

When asked about its funding reserves, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Vox that “beyond the monetary damages, the publishers are asking for the destruction of 1.4 million books, many of which do not exist in digital form anywhere else. That would be a real tragedy for people who depend on us for access to information.” He declined to comment further on the issue of funding.

The lawsuit might not destroy the IA, but it could hamper the aims of an “open internet”
All that said, a win for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit certainly isn’t ideal.



 
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Movable stone can be lost or broken. I believe we should write on stone that is immobile and protected from elements, perhaps inside an enclosure. We would need one that is already there not artificial, what are those things called again? Holes in rocks big enough for people to write on the inside of?
 
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Rebel Wilson said:
Movable stone can be lost or broken. I believe we should write on stone that is immobile and protected from elements, perhaps inside an enclosure. We would need one that is already there not artificial, what are those things called again? Holes in rocks big enough for people to write on the inside of?
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But the walls of those holes can erode due to weather damage. So clearly the only solution is to write it all on metal platters and send it into space where there is no weather to damage it.


Lemmingwise said:
archive.md is next on the list. It's hard to be progressive and move forward while memory holing doesn't work.
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Sorry, is this one a joke, or is this confirmed somewhere? Things have gotten so crazy I honestly can’t tell anymore.
 
Screw Danlon said:
But the walls of those holes can erode due to weather damage. So clearly the only solution is to write it all on metal platters and send it into space where there is no weather to damage it.
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But hasn't the solar radiation been known to erode metals so that wont do, of couse unless we use some kind of metal resistant to it. LIKE GOLD.


QUICK INSCRIBE ALL GAME CODE ONTO GOLD PLATES AND SHOOT THEM INTO SPACE.
 
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Wendig has worked as a writer and developer for roleplaying games, contributing to many White Wolf projects from 2002 to 2011, including Hunter: The Vigil (2008)
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so he’s at best someone who shielded a known predator/possible pedo and at worst a pedo himself.

(I overspoke. Sorry. I can’t find proof of the person I thought being a pedo.)
 
ChucklesTheJester said:
But hasn't the solar radiation been known to erode metals so that wont do, of couse unless we use some kind of metal resistant to it. LIKE GOLD.


QUICK INSCRIBE ALL GAME CODE ONTO GOLD PLATES AND SHOOT THEM INTO SPACE.
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And thus the Church of Latter Day Saints was founded.
 
None of this would have happened if the IA didn't decide to virtue signal during the Coronavirus Outbreak. You wanted media attention? You got it. Good and hard.
The only way sites like this can survive is to abide by at least some modicum of operational security. You shout to the world that you got copyrighted shit, guess what copyright lawyers are going to do? If it wasn't good old Chuck, it would have been somebody else.
 
Jason Scott should now go apologize to exhentai guys and ask them to help him host his archived works that absolutely shouldn't be lost to time such as "top 500 shareware software for Windows 95" or "1000 duke nukem levels".
 
ChucklesTheJester said:
But hasn't the solar radiation been known to erode metals so that wont do, of couse unless we use some kind of metal resistant to it. LIKE GOLD.


QUICK INSCRIBE ALL GAME CODE ONTO GOLD PLATES AND SHOOT THEM INTO SPACE.
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Brb, calling my crew of space pirates.
 
Aberforth said:
Laminating is a thing.

I hope Chuck and friends are forever known as the guys who helped neuter the Internet Archive.

At least torrents are an option.
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Unless people pull and zip the whole thing, there aren’t going to be torrents of a lot of the stuff on IA. Who actually wants copies of old, bad C64 games? Not to mention that some of the stuff on there has been put through emulators and Dosboxed, none of which is stuff I want to deal with
 
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