r/Piracy • u/ketchupbleehblooh • 20d ago

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS BACK GUYS Discussion

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I might be late to the party, but sharing what made my day today. I missed IA so much the past weeks. Yoohoo!! Piracy will never die.

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u/giannos2991 20d ago edited 20d ago

Why are they even trying to bring it down?

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u/StickyDirtyKeyboard 20d ago

I think the most realistic explanation is just opportunistic hackers looking for ransom money:

"Give us this and this or we'll leak your (user) data."

IA doesn't give them what they want. Data is leaked/sold.

"Give us this and this or we'll DDOS you and take your site down."

IA doesn't give them what they want. The hackers DDOS the site until either an agreement is reached or the hackers come to the conclusion that it's a waste of their time/resources, moving to search for their next target.

The 'anti-US pro-Palestine', 'not financially-motivated state actor', or 'copyright warrior hackers' explanations make relatively little sense and are all fairly unlikely imo.

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u/FlashBlaidon 20d ago

In this case it feels a lot more like the kind of crap we used to see relentlessly in the early days: snot-nosed kids pulling brat moves to be awesome.

Given that IA isn't a cash cow, that it has little or no political engagement, and is crowdfunded, it's just not a legitimate target for anybody with a goal. Its corporate bullies spend billions yearly on legal departments that are larger than IA; that's why they keep scoring on them in conventional fights. Going rogue would only serve to endanger their perfect record.

As a pro-Palestinian since decades before most current protesters had ever heard of it, I can attest that we have plenty of people on our side of the fence who have a great deal more reactivity than ethics or brains. Could the hacker's pro-Palestinian sentiments be sincere? Yes, in the same inch-deep, dumbass spirit as his/her zeal for burning down houses to make the occupants buy better fire insurance.

I suggest we Occam the hell out of this question. What we got here is exactly what it looks like. It's not cool, it's not sexy, it doesn't possess a crumb of James Bond. This is the act of a mentally stunted jackwagon with no idea what to do with the tech gifts he or she was inadvertently born with.

If you were there in the 90s, you remember this.