Internet Archive - Live Music

The Internet Live Music Archive is better than ever!

Sure, now they have over 2500 downloadable Grateful Dead shows, but in addition to the ILM-relevant bands noted above,
they also now have (or will soon have) freely downloadable live shows from

My Morning Jacket
Mogwai
Mountain Goats
Giant Sand / Howe Gelb
Calexico
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Butthole Surfers
Hella
Xiu Xiu
Explosions in the Sky
Mekons/Sally Timms/Jon Langford/Waco Brothers/Rico Bell
Soul Coughing / Mike Doughty
Fugazi
and so much more...

as always, available here:

http://www.archive.org/audio/

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/0.8.32

They're working on it. Just got a message that the search database was acting up, then pressed F5 and it worked again, then clicked a link and got another error.

yeah, i was able to get in almost right after i posted that. trying to look up old Pazz and Jop ballots

works for me ... good thing becuz dudes the time is right to listen to this http://www.archive.org/details/gd77-05-08.maizner.hicks.5002.sbeok.shnf

http://blog.archive.org/2022/09/06/building-democracys-library-celebrate-with-the-internet-archive-on-october-19/

I thikn I was at this

https://archive.org/details/robynhitchcock2000-06-17.flac16

Here’s the first full Pavement show I ever saw

https://archive.org/details/pavement1997-05-14/Pavement+1997-05-14+Baltimore%2C+MD%2C+USA/pavement05-14-1997t-01.flac

Good piece.

Most of the headline-grabbing copyright battles over the past few years have been over AI. But the Internet Archive is fighting its own war over copyright—and it's in grave danger. https://t.co/BVDoFIQWD1

— Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ (@Knibbs) September 27, 2024

So baffling and frustrating that these publishers spent so much money and energy going after the Archive for trying to provide better access to books during the pandemic, when that kind of money and energy could have been better spent going after AI bullshit.

The loss to live music archives alone will be incalculable.

a) publishers love a soft target
b) the ethos of something like the Internet Archive - public good rather than private profit - is inimical to them

think you might be confusing “massive multinational conglomerates and investment groups” with “publishers” there

I think the Internet Archive is a good thing but they were incredibly dumb doing what they did
It was a clear violation of copyright law with no mitigations to allow them to claim that what they did was in a grey area
I work in libraries and it was clear from the second they announced their pandemic library that they were going to be sued into the ground
Apart from the impact on the archive itself they've also negatively impacted years of work by librarians and other copyright activists to improve the laws in this area

Can someone provide a gift link for the article above, or give a tl;dr/summary of the upshot and what’s likely to happen?

https://archive.ph/fCvJP

ty!

they're being DDOS'ed right now

Latest update (5:36am, Oct 10) ⬇️ https://t.co/a8FiM0Z3fN

— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) October 10, 2024

For the second time, aiui. Had a huge data breach during the first one, apparently over 31 million users were impacted.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

Why people would target the Internet Archive, of all places, is beyond me.

Still down today.

https://www.vivalazone.org/sites/default/files/zoner_images/Screenshot%202024-10-09%20at%204.54.18%E2%80%AFPM.png

That was posted on Bluesky, from the EFF's Director of Cybersecurity.

😔

Still down. Only a few services up on a read-only basis via Wayback Machine.

Pretty nuts that it is still down.

Honestly kind of surprised this hasn't been a bigger deal or being talked about more. Still down today.

I agree. Maybe people are distracted by the election?

I use the Wayback Machine pretty frequently for work. Still accessible right now, but loading very slowly.

I was actually trying to see if there was a thread devoted to the Internet Archive but couldn't find anything, which maybe is the reason why it isn't talked about on here? There's obviously a lot of upset about it on social media. Would like to know who was actually behind it, just don't buy that the group who claimed to have done it actually did it. Just seems like a strange target especially with them just losing the lawsuit from the publishers and the ongoing lawsuit from the labels.

Still down and things really don't seem to be improving:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/20/24274826/internet-archive-hackers-replying-zendesk-tickets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=theverge%2Fmagazine%2FTech+News

This is such a frustrating loss.

I'm guessing that this was bought and paid for by a publishing company (or a general media company on behalf of their publishing interests) and it will be library web sites that will be next. Publishers hate libraries.

Funny you should mention that, because this was included in a recent update from the IA team:

As a library community, we are seeing other cyber attacks—for instance the British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library, and now Calgary Public Library. We hope these attacks are not indicative of a trend.

I've gone to use the digital library twice in the past week--very useful for looking up a quote from a book without an index.