this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
453 points (98.3% liked)

Technology

59589 readers
3300 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
453
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The Internet Archive's time is very limited. People are uploading full-length copyrighted movies. Even Disney movies. They aren't getting deleted. They are going to be sued into oblivion, taking their whole web archive with them.

More personally to me since I've made a lot of use of it, they would also take the Prelinger Archives with them. The Prelinger Archives is a massive noncommercial online archive of industrial, educational, commercial and other types of short films not considered to be pure entertainment from the beginnings of the silent era up even into the 1980s.

Much of it has been backed up on YouTube, so it will not disappear entirely, but then the content will be in the hands of Google, not in the hands of the people.

The Internet Archive is making a huge mistake by not moderating their content and we will all pay for it.