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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Surely most of it is already on the Internet archive?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Very likely. Those are not secure in the long-run either though, hence the need for an overabundance. No single online service should be genuinely fully trusted. You need a lot of duplication for any kind of real future-proofing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know much about the internet archive's inner workings. But rather recently a huge collection of old 70s-00s tokusatsu shows and movies got deleted along with the uploader. Some remain on piracy sites, but a lot probably live now on some old torrents. We really need an archive of the internet archive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

A while back they had a piece of tech where you could self host a backup of a small part of their dataset, and it stored it in the clear on your computer so you were free to peruse whatever subset of the data you got allocated

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The Internet Archive's time is very limited. People are uploading full-length copyrighted movies. Even Disney movies. They aren't getting deleted. They are going to be sued into oblivion, taking their whole web archive with them.

More personally to me since I've made a lot of use of it, they would also take the Prelinger Archives with them. The Prelinger Archives is a massive noncommercial online archive of industrial, educational, commercial and other types of short films not considered to be pure entertainment from the beginnings of the silent era up even into the 1980s.

Much of it has been backed up on YouTube, so it will not disappear entirely, but then the content will be in the hands of Google, not in the hands of the people.

The Internet Archive is making a huge mistake by not moderating their content and we will all pay for it.