In June of 2020, facing a range of challenges, we posted a host of information about how you could help the Internet Archive through difficult and pressing times.
Pretty much all of the suggestions and links in that essay still hold up and are relevant this month as well, and we are the Historical Web people, so here is a full link to that post again:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/06/14/how-can-you-help-the-internet-archive/
Your words of support and letting us know what we mean to you are appreciated, and read with great happiness. Thanks.
I support. internet Archive . U people Made me read books during COVID days wherein I was in depression and stayed disturbed . But Archive helped me to overcome with books old enough published during 1950 and 1960 Litrature and Novels regarding Buddhism and Taoism . I am with u Internet Archive . Go Ahead . Stay Ahead .
Same!
Apoyo Archivo de Internet. El curso de Francés sin esfuerzo me parece muy bueno. Lo estoy haciendo con la traducción al castellano. Realmente en la primera lección he aprendido mucho más que de cualquier otro curso de Francés.
Gracias.
Dear Internet Archive:
This litigation you face is simply a planned step in the destruction of Western Civilization by the Satanic cults behind the New World Order. Simply, it is a coordinated effort by enemy-owned Marxist unions and foreign governments that own the United States.
Look at the groups that are attacking Internet libraries and burning down physical libraries and churches, and you will see this in its correct context. Your destruction is simply one step in their war against all mankind. It has been planned for a long time, and independent research by an individual who pays attention will show that this Satanic cult is not shy about broadcasting their plans for us all, including “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY”. Internet Archive, your work must be destroyed in the modern war against Western Civilization. But the enemy plans for their failure to do so; they want “isolated communities” with the censored Internet as an “echo chamber”. Make no mistake: this is a literal war that we face, and the invading troops will be coming once the stage is set.
These are the evil adversaries who have publicly exposed their hand in this legal attack you face; with a wartime discipline that JFK called on the public to have (https://archive.org/details/jfk_secret_societies), EVERYONE absolutely MUST boycott these groups and never again support them in any way, shape, or form; note that “international” is code for “globalist” and “New World Order”, and they have LITERALLY INFINITE MONEY AND INFINITE POLITICAL INFLUENCE criminally backing them while they take down America piece by piece; these groups are TREASONOUS and GUILTY OF INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIME in their active measures against freedom of thought on earth:
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC.,
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LLC,
JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.,
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC,
THE AUTHORS GUILD, INC.,
WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA,
CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION,
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS,
THE WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA,
INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS FORUM,
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS,
ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA,
SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS,
EUROPEAN WRITERS COUNCIL,
NATIONAL WRITERS UNION,
GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD,
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COLLECTIVE RIGHTS LICENSING,
SOCIETY OF AUTHORS,
SISTERS IN CRIME,
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS,
DRAMATISTS GUILD OF AMERICA,
NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION,
NOVELISTS INC.,
ASSOCIATION OF AUTHORS AGENTS,
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS,
THE UNION DES ÉCRIVAINES ET DES ÉCRIVAINS QUÉBÉCOIS,
EUROPEAN VISUAL ARTISTS,
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION,
FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS,
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL PUBLISHERS,
INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF AUTHORS AND COMPOSERS,
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS,
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FEDERATION,
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE PHONOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY,
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP: Elizabeth A. McNamara, Linda J. Steinman, John M. Browning, Jesse Feitel, Carl Mazurek, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10020, (212) 489-8230,
Attorney Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP: Scott A. Zebrak (pro hac vice), Matthew J. Oppenheim, Danae Tinelli (pro hac vice), 4530 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20016, (202) 480-2999,
COWAN, DeBAETS, ABRAHAMS & SHEPPARD LLP: Nancy E. Wolff, Alexander Gigante, Elizabeth Safran, 41 Madison Avenue, 38th Floor, New York, New York 10010, (212) 974-7474
And a special thanks to MICHELLE M. WU, LIBRARY FUTURES INSTITUTE, EVERYLIBRARY INSTITUTE, READERSFIRST, KENNETH D. CREWS, KEVIN L. SMITH, AUTHORS ALLIANCE, INC., ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, DURIE TANGRI LLP, and anonymous scholars and law professors for intelligently advocating freedom as AMICUS CURIAE and legal representatives for the Internet Archive. https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-amicus-brief-michelle-wu
https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-amicus-brief-library-futures-institute-everylibrary-institute
https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-amicus-brief-kenneth-crews-and-kevin-smith
https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-amicus-brief-intellectual-law-professors
https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-amicus-brief-authors-alliance
https://www.eff.org/document/achette-v-internet-amicus-brief-13-copyright-scholars
https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-internet-archives-opposition-motion-summary-judgment
America is under attack. The entire world of men who desire to live is under attack. Good luck, Internet Archive. We will be watching.
Can you please be more clear on exactly which services are going to stop working??. Thank you.
I use the wayback machine a lot, and also the WBGS system to help with mass page-saving. Even though I don’t use the other features the IA use, I still care about the OL because it is not just links to another webpage Wikipedia cite its sources, it is also citing books. If a book goes out of print and is completely lost, is the equivalent to a linkrot when a webpage goes 404.
It’s egregious to see those 4 companies believed that the OL is a giant pirate site, when really this system mimics what libraries do centuries ago. Anyone and I mean anyone can buy a book from the bookstore and literally own it without any influence from the publisher, give it to the library and lend it out without any payment. There is no evidence of a lost sale if an average joe buys a book and donate it to the library, vs if the average joe instead ask the IA to buy a book and gave the IA the money to purchase the book vs the IA itself buys the book, all of which results in 1 sale. If any of these books the IA literally owns have a licensed version, it does not affect the rights of ownership the IA has on the said books. Licensing schemes don’t retroactively apply to older books before the license version exists. Such a restrictive scheme only applies when the IA signs a binding contract.
The national emergency library (NEL), when it close down, gives the effect as if the NEL didn’t exist at all because after that happens, the download/lending limit goes back on and on the next checkout will revert the downloaded books back to the default controlled-digital-lending mode. During the NEL, all other restrictions on the digitized books are retained (copy, distribute, and requires re-checking out when the timer expires), which further renders the books in question a temporary access (the IA basically yank them back, completely undoing the effect). Therefore, there is no long-term impact of the market. This temporary event shouldn’t require the IA to have review, commentary, or info about to be considered fair use about them because how on earth can borrowers obtain books from the library when they can’t? Also this isn’t the role of libraries to review, have commentary over, or info about. This system is a detour when the libraries across the US were closed down, to maintain access pre-purchased non-licensing-scheme books.
I really hate to see a future of the internet where you visit a Wikipedia article and all its citations are broken because the books it links to are no longer available and the WBM is also wiped. Not only that, but having missing sources can even be dangerous to wikipedia for being accused for defamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litigation_involving_the_Wikimedia_Foundation :
“In January 2019, a court in Germany ruled against the Wikimedia Foundation, prompting it to remove part of the history and the allegedly defamatory content about a professor. The Wikipedia article’s content was ruled defamatory because the link supporting its claims was no longer active, a phenomenon known as “link rot.””
Beyond that, you find that a crapload of links in general across the internet to especially old sites will cease to work. Pages or websites getting deleted or altered happens often especially on news and file hosting sites. Without preservation of the truth, the internet becomes unreliable, and the internet will be infested deeply with misinformation.
The judge has failed to understand what role the OL is trying to do and instead simply views it as a site that tries to do something else that is akin to a sharing site that should’ve review, do commentary, or info about to have fair use apply.
I see this a purposeful censorship. They don’t want anyone to know anything about the past, claim it’s “outdated” and be done with it.
Every act of censorship is a psychological warfare attack against humanity. This is a planned act of war in the destruction of Western Civilization.
Did you think that you were living in peace time?
The Satanic New World Order is working hard to destroy Christianity piece by piece. What, have you been living under a rock the past 60 years? Everyone should know this by now. What do you think COVID was for?
https://archive.org/details/jfk_secret_societies/