I’m kind of amazed that only that and the 78’s archive was lost. At least there’s Project Gutenberg et al to help with the books, and meanwhile the IA does still archive a vast load of video material, software, and no doubt, other stuff.
Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo’s lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.
Except that’s all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that’s missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the “removed” games.
In case you wanted to know what was lost.
I’m kind of amazed that only that and the 78’s archive was lost. At least there’s Project Gutenberg et al to help with the books, and meanwhile the IA does still archive a vast load of video material, software, and no doubt, other stuff.
I did, thanks.
How many of them are not backed up somewhere else?
I’m sure Anna has an archive or something
Most of them are still “on” the Internet Archive.
Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo’s lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.
Except that’s all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that’s missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the “removed” games.
What criteria decided those books? It must be a relatively small number of all books