This information came to light thanks to the Swedish judicial system: TPB’s revenue is $4–5 million per year, plus something on Bitcoin's grow as they were early adopters. Thus, archive.org falls somewhere between TPB…
You're attributing teenage behavior to a 40-year-old rich guy. So either there's a conspiracy, or Jani is just an idiot and a psychopath. I'm open to both possibilities, but you're only considering the second one.…
These links are posted by malware on the computers of HN users who have previously visited archive.today; you won't be able to stop this by asking people not to post links. Users who post links should be urged to run an…
This wasn’t the first incident involving Finland and its government since the archive was established, nor was it even the second. And when you consider that Jani Patokallio isn’t just some random, curious,…
30 million is on the scale of Pirate Bay, slightly less than Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload (150M), and 3–4 orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook. So yes, by my definition, archive.org is a small, indie project as well run…
comparable to the 3 websites mentioned
You have to go to Epstein Island to find buyers for metadata. Have you heard of any small indie projects with this kind of business model? Maybe PirateBay, Sci-Hub, Flibusta? I haven't. That's why I'm sure CloudFlare is…
Its incredible popularity has long since led to the emergence of virtually unsolvable CAPTCHAs, designed to reduce this level.
But this might be the reason: to make the archive unexciting for AI scrapers
The content is likely filled from some other sources like Android/iPhone APIs, not from the pages themselves and then merged with page's design e.g. https://archive.ph/8ZDI7 a page removed from original website,…
Magnolia1234 resorts to archive.is for some websites, archive.is uses Magnolia for others. There is no asymmetry besides open/closed-source.
Those are either "flotsam" or "derelict", definitively not "pirated".
HN does not
example.com blocks Iran for nothing
Russia exports a huge amount of content (from cartoons to AI), which is why it did not withdraw from copyright treaties in 2022, as Belarus did
This information came to light thanks to the Swedish judicial system: TPB’s revenue is $4–5 million per year, plus something on Bitcoin's grow as they were early adopters. Thus, archive.org falls somewhere between TPB…
You're attributing teenage behavior to a 40-year-old rich guy. So either there's a conspiracy, or Jani is just an idiot and a psychopath. I'm open to both possibilities, but you're only considering the second one.…
These links are posted by malware on the computers of HN users who have previously visited archive.today; you won't be able to stop this by asking people not to post links. Users who post links should be urged to run an…
This wasn’t the first incident involving Finland and its government since the archive was established, nor was it even the second. And when you consider that Jani Patokallio isn’t just some random, curious,…
30 million is on the scale of Pirate Bay, slightly less than Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload (150M), and 3–4 orders of magnitude smaller than Facebook. So yes, by my definition, archive.org is a small, indie project as well run…
comparable to the 3 websites mentioned
You have to go to Epstein Island to find buyers for metadata. Have you heard of any small indie projects with this kind of business model? Maybe PirateBay, Sci-Hub, Flibusta? I haven't. That's why I'm sure CloudFlare is…
Its incredible popularity has long since led to the emergence of virtually unsolvable CAPTCHAs, designed to reduce this level.
But this might be the reason: to make the archive unexciting for AI scrapers
The content is likely filled from some other sources like Android/iPhone APIs, not from the pages themselves and then merged with page's design e.g. https://archive.ph/8ZDI7 a page removed from original website,…
Magnolia1234 resorts to archive.is for some websites, archive.is uses Magnolia for others. There is no asymmetry besides open/closed-source.
Those are either "flotsam" or "derelict", definitively not "pirated".
HN does not
example.com blocks Iran for nothing
Russia exports a huge amount of content (from cartoons to AI), which is why it did not withdraw from copyright treaties in 2022, as Belarus did