You gotta be a special kind of sad to DDoS archive.org...

Foreign government, moneyed interests, or domestic dipshits, taking all bets.

Across social, economic, and political spectra, you can always tell the good guys from the bad guys by their stance on access to knowledge.

Losing the internet archive would be such a huge loss... I really hope they have a backup plan in case things go bad legally.

A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.

Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…

if you have a spare corner in your server, host the archive warrior and help them out.

What can we do to help?

That last sentence though...

• **"The cyberattacks share the timeline with the legal battle Internet Archive is facing from US book publishers, claiming copyright infringement and seeking combined damages of hundreds of millions of dollars from all libraries." ** *

Stop it you fucking bastards!

The Internet Archive needs to be distributed somehow. We can't have a single point of failure like this or we've learned nothing since Alexandria.

I've got several terabytes just laying around that I'd happily devote to ancient copies of web pages.

They could do this with the bank of america instead

Describing a high intensity DDOS attack on one of the world's most important resources as simply "mean" is unironically one of the funniest things I've read this year.

Hope they get some support soon.

Do they have any idea who’s perpetrating the attack?

If it's an entity, my money would be on China just discovering it exists since it diametrically opposes its propaganda machine. But it could very well just be dark web shitheads whose seasonal drug binge just spiked up again, plenty of them to go around to make accusations and propaganda they know are false whom can't simply backtrack it because of archive.org and it doesn't require much to disrupt a still too largely implicit trust driven Internet.

i honestly really hope this shit gets taken care of so internet archive can still keep going

I'm not good with computers and stuff. If somebody finds these scumbags who are ddos'ing internet archive I'd be very grateful. Also fucking them up in the process is also good.

people are shitty

Well Google search method was just leaked... Wonder if this picked that up before they pulled it.

Is it possible that someone is conducting some operation and doesn’t want it to be randomly documented?

Some state maybe? Eh I just have a hard time thinking of motives for this attack