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Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site (arstechnica.com)
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DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023. [...] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html:

By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger's URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It supports the goal of free knowledge, so I think it wouldn't veer far off its mission

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You're misinterpreting what Wikimedia's "free knowledge" mandate is about. They have a hard-line requirement that the knowlege they distribute is legally free, for example - it has to be under an open license. archive.today is quite the opposite of that. They don't just archive any old knowledge willy-nilly, they've got standards. And so forth.

Simply running an archive.today clone would not fit. The "source documents only" archive would already be stretching the edges rather far. There's already Wikisource, for example, and it's got the "open licenses only" restriction.

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 2 days ago

Archived pages wouldn't necessarily be the knowledge they distribute, just ways to verify the knowledge they distribute is correct. Content from The Wikipedia Library (which provides access to academia) isn't relicensed at all, for example. Such a service would be a project but not a sister project like Wikisource is,

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Wikimedia is an American organisation. In an America where legality is thrown out the window regularly, where foundational laws (e.g. murder, the constitution, etc) clearly no longer matter for the ruling party and vast swathes of people that follow them, what is legally free now?

I understand your point, I just think this is something to ponder. Is the free knowledge part more, or less, important than the legal part of their goal? Does the legal part truly matter any more?