Comment on We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  are you alright dude? have you never heard of DMCA?

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d have to find my archives first, absolutely none of them are on the frontend. I don’t use the archive in any normal manner, and the links are effectively randomized so there’s no chance of just guessing any of my links.

    I’ve been doing it for years and they haven’t pulled anything down yet.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alright I’ll bite. What am I missing.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    web.archive.org

    Look towards the bottom of the page, ‘Save Page Now’

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What?

      Yes, I know about the web archive. And I know that you can pull data without being logged in. But 100% of that data can be DMCAed at any point.

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      • crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Somebody can always just get an offline copy of that data, that kever hits the internet so company’s won’t know where it is so it can’t be dmca’d.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wanna watch a trick?

        tinyurl.com/missingf35

        You can follow that link, it’s perfectly safe, and rather funny no less. It links to the archive…

        web.archive.org/web/…/7667184419.html

        Note the if_ after the date/time code. That bypasses their banner. None of my links are anywhere on the frontend of the archive, you literally have to know every link to find my archives.

        And most of my archives aren’t even of websites, most of them are direct file downloads of older operating systems and games and stuff. Not like I’m about to share any of those here though.

        I’ve been doing that for years and they haven’t found or removed a single thing I’ve archived. If they ever do, well so be it, but none of it is on the frontend, and the links are so obscure that there’s basically zero chance of anyone just randomly guessing them.

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