edit: adjusted title slightly
What’s frustrating is that the ones who claimed to have done this are self-proclaimed “hacktivists”. You’re stupid if you think the Internet Archive is the enemy in this day and age.
Some anonymous group claimed it was attack on USA for supporting ethnic cleansing in Palestine. This is why they did something that benefited Disney and Nintendo. Makes perfect sense!
Capitalism hates a memory. Hates/fears anything it can’t update, whitewash or otherwise directly control or obscure after the fact.
If humanity had any hope, we’d surround this thing with torches to defend it tooth and nail.
Thanks, I just used their PayPal link to send my support and light my torch!
great job, mr. peabody
Glad to see it’s recovering. I hope the whole archive can come back up soon!
I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn’t read since I was a kid.
Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it’s not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn’t need a physical copy. And it isn’t even all that long.
Sigh.
Damn it’d be a shame if someone DM’ed me the name of the book and I had to go looking to see if there’s an epub/pdf version available for download in certain places. A real shame indeed.
I don’t care saying what book it is right here, because I’ve looked for both and came up wanting. It’s not available normally as an ebook for purchase, so I have my doubts.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/997118.Doktor_Bey_s_handbooks_of_strange_sex
Basically, the IA had it because they scan in masses of texts without even caring what they are. As long as they get a copy and it isn’t in the archive yet, they’ll scan it in.
FWIW, it’s pretty amusing.
Oh thats a super off the wall book. It barely exists anywhere let alone an ebook. I stand corrected and humbled.
