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Patrick O'Keefe

Reddit's choice to block the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, in order to prevent AI companies from indexing Reddit posts, is the type of self-serving, greater good-harming move I've come to expect from companies like Reddit and Stack Overflow.

theverge.com/news/757538/reddi

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The Verge · Reddit will block the Internet ArchiveBy Jay Peters
#OnlineCommunities#InternetArchive#WaybackMachine
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#Reddit will #block the #InternetArchive from indexing most of its content, limiting access to its website. This move is in response to #AIcompanies #scraping data from the #WaybackMachine, violating Reddit’s platform policies. Reddit has a history of restricting access to its data, preferring to monetise it through deals with companies like Google and OpenAI. theverge.com/news/757538/reddi #tech #media #news

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The Verge · Reddit will block the Internet ArchiveBy Jay Peters
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Nemo_bis 🌈

@luis_in_brief Thanks for sharing, looks like a neat release! Better than scraping IA. Does the metadata include authorship information?

What I have in mind is COMMUNIA policy 2 communia-association.org/polic ; in the USA the NYPL has been active recently nypl.org/blog/2019/09/01/histo and github.com/NYPL/cce-renewals is a good start, though the most impact is perhaps the usage of section 108(h) as seen in the #InternetArchive collection authorsalliance.org/2017/11/07 .

COMMUNIA AssociationCOMMUNIA Association - Full copyright protection should only be granted to works that have been registered by their authors.
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DoomsdaysCW

I trust #InternetArchive with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

Internet Archive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

tech.yahoo.com/general/article

Yahoo Tech · Internet Archive is now an official US government document libraryBy Steve Dent
#BigPublishing#Archives#BigMusic
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DoomsdaysCW

So, I figure if #BigPublishing can shut down the #InternetArchive's borrowing services, they should apply the same rules to #AI, right? (Personally, I'd rather have Internet Archive have access to books than AI).

#AIIndustry horrified to face largest #copyright #ClassAction ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say. [GOOD!]

by Ashley Belanger – Aug 8, 2025

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certifiedBy Ashley Belanger
#AISucks#NoNukesForAI
PrivacyDigest

#Constitution Sections on Due Process & Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

The last full version of the webpage, archived by the #InternetArchive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.

404media.co/constitution-secti

404 Media · Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' WebsitePart of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
adz

Christian, Wendy, kev, nanomonkey, Dmitri and me organised this event here over the last months and finally it is happening next week at the @internetarchive in SF!

The idea is to bring people together to reflect about the last years of building peer-to-peer software and formulate ideas for the future.

dwebseminar.org/

* DWeb Seminar, August 13 - 15: we've invited ten researchers and developers from different p2p projects to come, cook and live together, share learnings and formulate a publication
* DWeb Weekend, August 16 - 17: Public days full of roundtable discussions, workshops, presentations and demos

Come and join us if you can! For Sunday we still have free slots for your talks and workshops.

dwebseminar.orgDWeb Seminar 2025 - August 13-17, 2025, San FranciscoMap the current DWeb technological landscape, learn from each other, and define the challenges ahead
#dweb#p2p#localfirst
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