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[–] [email protected] 250 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You gotta be a real piece of shit to target the Internet Archive.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it were paid by the companies currently battling them over copyright. Bunch of greedy bastards.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What I wanna know is how companies get away with stuff like this.

Getting to the bottom of a cyber attack isn't... Impossible? It just takes resources.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You just pay random people on the internet to do it, it's fairly easy if you know where/what to ask for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just about anything is traceable. The trick is making it not worth the effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ask eBay how that towing that line worked out for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

See sending ip packets is quite a lot easier that sending pig fetuses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, but far more traceable!

I mean, if eBay couldt cover entrails...

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I read yesterday that a study found out that 25% of webpages generated in 2013-2023 are gone forever. Attacking the internet archive maybe has darker motives such as censorship or plainly wanting to erase inconvenient history

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

1984 that what your saying. They erase the past so they can tell you it never happen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who controls the past now, controls the future...

Who controls the present now, controls the past...

Who controls the past now, controls the future...

Who controls the present now?

Now Testify! It's right outside your door

Now Testify!

Testify!

It's right outside your door...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Censorship is probably the most reasonable explanation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Or monetizing content. Can't monetize what is freely available.

Which I guess that falls under censorship, just for a different reason

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

This should be pursued the same way as if you broke into the Louvre and shat on the Venus Di Milo

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Like targeting PSN and Xbox servers on Christmas Day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Who benefits? This is paid for by corps using paywalls., under the table.