The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program
I could follow the logic of the concept of the Digital Library itself, but the “National Emergency Library” was clearly a step too far. There was no way “let's unilaterally lend out unlimited digital...
ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive
no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively dead. In the end, it...
ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive
no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively dead. In the end, it...
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
but they may eventually return in a new form Ashwin / Ghacks : Google confirms that cache links have been removed from search results Mastodon: Misty / @misty@digipres.club : Google's getting rid of t...
A look at four publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20
Or that they haven't already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive … LinkedIn: Ross Dawson . Tweets: @josephscoccyx , @jeffjarvis , @aem...
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week
Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica : Tweets: @louisgray Tweets: Louis Gray / @louisgray : The @internetarchive has 22 petabytes of archived information. With proper backups, that's 44 petabytes of data. T...
The number of AmazonBasics products available on Amazon.com grew from about 250 products in June 2013 to over 1,500 products now, according to Internet Archive
Amazon launched a house brand, called AmazonBasics, in 2009. It was originally a way for Amazon to sell low-cost …