The logo of California-based Internet Archive. (Photo by Arnold Gatilao via Wikimedia Commons)
The Internet Archive is in the process of dealing with a cyberattack that has crippled some of its online services for the past three days, the organization affirmed in an email to supporters on Monday.
The attack began Saturday when unknown individuals instigated a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, scheme, the organization said.
DDoS attacks involve using software to send a barrage of fraudulent traffic to websites in an attempt to crash them, with the goal of disrupting services.
“Thankfully the collections are safe, but we are sorry that the denial-of-service attack has knocked us offline intermittently during these last three days,” Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian at the Internet Archive, said in a statement. “With the support from others and the hard work of staff we are hardening our defenses to provide more reliable access to our library.
The Internet Archive is in the process of dealing with a cyberattack that has crippled some of its online services for the past three days, the organization affirmed in an email to supporters on Monday.
The attack began Saturday when unknown individuals instigated a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, scheme, the organization said.
DDoS attacks involve using software to send a barrage of fraudulent traffic to websites in an attempt to crash them, with the goal of disrupting services.
“Thankfully the collections are safe, but we are sorry that the denial-of-service attack has knocked us offline intermittently during these last three days,” Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian at the Internet Archive, said in a statement. “With the support from others and the hard work of staff we are hardening our defenses to provide more reliable access to our library.
- 5/28/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
Major record labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Capitol have filed a copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive and its founder Brewster Kahle over the “Great 78 Project,” an initiative aimed to preserve and provide free access to pre-1972 musical works from artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong.
In the suit filed Friday (August 11th), the labels claim that the project — which Internet Archive describes as a hub for “the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records” — violates copyright laws, and argues that by “transferring copies of those files to members of the public, Internet Archive has reproduced and distributed without authorization Plaintiffs’ protected sound recordings.”
The group of plaintiffs also includes Concord Bicycle Assets, Cmgi Recorded Music Assets, and Arista Music, who all own full or partial copyrights to some of the music in the collection, and allege the recordings were illegally distributed to...
In the suit filed Friday (August 11th), the labels claim that the project — which Internet Archive describes as a hub for “the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records” — violates copyright laws, and argues that by “transferring copies of those files to members of the public, Internet Archive has reproduced and distributed without authorization Plaintiffs’ protected sound recordings.”
The group of plaintiffs also includes Concord Bicycle Assets, Cmgi Recorded Music Assets, and Arista Music, who all own full or partial copyrights to some of the music in the collection, and allege the recordings were illegally distributed to...
- 8/14/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Capitol, and other record labels filed a copyright lawsuit on Friday against Internet Archive, founder Brewster Kahle, and others over the organization’s “Great 78 Project,” accusing them of behaving as an “illegal record store.” The suit lists 2,749 pre-1972 musical works available via Internet Archive by late artists, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby, among others.
The suit, which was filed in federal court and reviewed by Rolling Stone, claims the Internet Archive’s “Great 78 Project” — launched...
The suit, which was filed in federal court and reviewed by Rolling Stone, claims the Internet Archive’s “Great 78 Project” — launched...
- 8/12/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Smashing Pumpkins are just a few artists whose concerts live on in the Live Music Archive, which just recently cracked a whopping 250,000 recordings.
Over the last 20 years or so, Internet Archive staff and music-loving volunteers have compiled various concert footage on the Live Music Archive for viewers to watch and listen to freely. Now, nearly 30 items are uploaded to the Live Music Archive each day, which now takes up more than 250 terabytes of data on Internet Archive servers.
“It’s a huge victory for the open web,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. “Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Live Music Archive is particularly heavy with jam band footage, including highlight performances from String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee,...
Over the last 20 years or so, Internet Archive staff and music-loving volunteers have compiled various concert footage on the Live Music Archive for viewers to watch and listen to freely. Now, nearly 30 items are uploaded to the Live Music Archive each day, which now takes up more than 250 terabytes of data on Internet Archive servers.
“It’s a huge victory for the open web,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. “Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Live Music Archive is particularly heavy with jam band footage, including highlight performances from String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Digital database Internet Archive lost the first ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the “nonprofit library” by four of the biggest publishing companies.
In June 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive over their attempt to create a “National Emergency Library” by uploading countless e-books — or scanned versions of printed books — for users to “borrow” while bookstores and libraries across the nation were shuttered due to the pandemic.
“Its goal of creating digital copies of books...
In June 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive over their attempt to create a “National Emergency Library” by uploading countless e-books — or scanned versions of printed books — for users to “borrow” while bookstores and libraries across the nation were shuttered due to the pandemic.
“Its goal of creating digital copies of books...
- 3/25/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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