Signed!
We, the undersigned, call on the record labels and members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—including UMG, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music—to drop your lawsuit against the Internet Archive.
The Long Now foundation has a write-up on my recently-lost long bet:
On February 22, 02011, Jeremy Keith made a prediction that he hoped would be proven wrong.
The bet was been won (not by me, thankfully) and Jason has some thoughts.
This speculative version of the internet archive invites you to see how websites will look in 2046.
A profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:
Tech’s walled gardens might make it harder to get a perfect picture, but the small team of librarians, digital archivists and software engineers at the Internet Archive plan to keep bringing the world the Wayback Machine, the Open Library, the Software Archive, etc., until the end of time. Literally.
A three-part series on digital preservation:
Losing an eleven year bet.
The most pernicious of falsehoods is the idea that the internet never forgets.
219,000 hours of wonder.
Making a copy of a web page which is a copy of a newsgroup post by Iain M Banks. 1994::2001::2021
When is an explanation not an explanation?