#archiveteam-bs 2020-01-03,Fri

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00:10 πŸ”— SootBectr Haven't seen that anywhere no
00:21 πŸ”— arkiver looks like it used to be possible to query the /download2/ URL to get the /file2/ URL
00:21 πŸ”— arkiver probably not possible anymore, getting 500 with the AppWorld/4.3 useragent
00:30 πŸ”— SootBectr Hmm, watching wireshark while installing one app, there's about sixty GETs for /file2/{id} with the id incrementing each time, different md5s but the 10digits stay the same
00:30 πŸ”— arkiver can you post the URLs?
00:30 πŸ”— arkiver or at least 2
00:31 πŸ”— SootBectr I can send you the pcap if you want
00:32 πŸ”— SootBectr but I'll copy out a few urls in any case
00:40 πŸ”— SootBectr https://0bin.net/paste/JYra5a4R7RqTi18d#LphoM-7juSPysy9te6jPpnje4eN+G2s6xf/qKks6/bW
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00:45 πŸ”— SootBectr So I think it's downloading all the files that make up the java app separately? Those links don't check useragent, btw.
01:06 πŸ”— SootBectr Heh, first thing in their sitemap is a dead link to something from Alicia Keys https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/sitemap-manual-index.xml
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01:17 πŸ”— OrIdow6 The 10 digits are a Unix timestamp a few hours in the future - perhaps the md5 is of that date, the file ID, and a secret
01:23 πŸ”— OrIdow6 It will still accept it if you prefix the timestamp with 0s, but not the file ID - seems to suggest that the former, but not the latter, is converted to an int first
01:25 πŸ”— kiska arkiver: how big do you expect it to be? Rsync target will come up when I get back home in 10hrs....
01:29 πŸ”— SootBectr Ahh, timestamp! I found what appears to be json for the entire appstore listings, 75751 items sound right? https://appworld.blackberry.com/cas/producttype/all?page=1&pagesize=100
01:40 πŸ”— SootBectr I'll grab all of those and make a list of ids
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01:52 πŸ”— SootBectr There https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/tbSDRBGGTp/
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02:23 πŸ”— Kaz and as I say that.. it comes back
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03:14 πŸ”— Nick-PC I have a general bone to pick with the WBM, so if anyone wants to chime in, feel free. Why is it that when I manually submit a link into the WBM, that after completing, going to view the capture in the viewer never works right?
03:15 πŸ”— Nick-PC Example: I submitted this story of astrophysicist, Ron Mallett, that was done by CNN. And for whatever reason, it took multiple attempt at submitting the links into WBM. And then once it finally did capture it, I still can't get the WBM viewer to display the contents correctly
03:15 πŸ”— Nick-PC This article, https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/time-travel-ron-mallett-scn
03:19 πŸ”— Kyoon are you using any extensions / browser settings that could be interfering
03:19 πŸ”— Kyoon does archiv.is cap it fine?
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03:27 πŸ”— OrIdow6 I don't know about your capture problems, but turning off Javascript on the viewed capture works for me (it's one of those sites, evidently)
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03:32 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Kyoon, no, I even tried submitting manually into the WBM's capture link field in a different browser without any extensions
03:32 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Same results
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03:33 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Trying to view the capture just now, I can see the article for a brief moment and after that this page displays, almost like an overlay or something
03:33 πŸ”— HP_Archiv https://web.archive.org/web/20200103030641/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/time-travel-ron-mallett-scn
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03:40 πŸ”— OrIdow6 Hp_Archiv / Nick-PC: the playback problem is just something that happens on some sites when you browse them in the WBM - it usually, as in this case, works just to temporarily turn off Javascript
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03:41 πŸ”— OrIdow6 Happens (or at least happened to me once) on captures of the new Reddit, too
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03:41 πŸ”— OrIdow6 (Though that's just my experience)
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03:43 πŸ”— HP_Archiv That's not exactly ideal though. At risk of overgeneralizing, what good is an archive if you have to fiddle with the settings to parse the information?
03:44 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I recall someone in here saying that the viewer was broken or something. Not sure if that's the case (likely is) but if so, that's where the donated funds that IA receives should be going towards. You can archive everything for the hell of it. But if you can't read or access the archived information in an easy fashion, it's useless/impractical
03:44 πŸ”— Kyoon blame cnn ;.>
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03:49 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I understand that archiving websites is very site-specific. But there should be an easy way to view/parse what has been archived. Otherwise, what are we doing? eg: an awful lot of time is spent trying to capture as much as possible. And I know nothing will be perfect and seamless. But I've often wondered at what point will major companies and corporations start to realize that it's all of our best interest to work side by side
03:49 πŸ”— HP_Archiv historians, archivists, preservationists, etc.
03:50 πŸ”— HP_Archiv A lot of this work that's done by ArchiveTeam and other groups online are all rogue, non-formal activities. Which is a shame because it doesn't have to be that way
03:53 πŸ”— HP_Archiv And I think the only reason it is that way is because it comes down to X group doesn't want XYZ available to other people, if not out of copyright, then out of ideological agenda. I'm thinking of Wikipedia. They've managed to setup an open-community where pretty much everyone uses and a sizable number of volunteers dedicate time to building further, adding sourced-information. There's the underground aspect of the informal web
03:53 πŸ”— HP_Archiv archiving that I just view as unsustainable. End of rant, heh
03:54 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Kind of took that off the deep end there, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while. I guess the WBM viewer issues teased that out a bit Lol
03:58 πŸ”— atphoenix HP_Archiv, even Wikipedia needs archiving from time to time. Some of the bots over there have over-compressed/over-shrunk some of the images under the reason of 'non-free' image. Some are shrunk so much you can't even read the words anymore. The originals were not high quality to begin with.
03:58 πŸ”— Raccoon ^ - :'(
03:58 πŸ”— atphoenix Those bots seem to simply say 'resolution is greater than x pixels...must resize downwards'
03:59 πŸ”— Raccoon making stamp collecting cool again.
03:59 πŸ”— atphoenix it's more like image thumbnail collecting
03:59 πŸ”— Raccoon but with thumbnails the size of pinkie nails
04:00 πŸ”— atphoenix I was looking at some screenshots and old posters, and you can't read all the text in the image anymore.
04:00 πŸ”— HP_Archiv atphonenix, good point. I was just thinking, here, that maybe I should remind myself and ask the question, "Has it always been like this?" e.g. long before the internet, long before computers, have archiving and 'saving stuff' endeavors always been risky insofar as people, archivists, pioneers in these activities of saving cultural heritage, have they always had to be somewhat low-key, shady, underground, not very vocal, etc?
04:00 πŸ”— atphoenix thankfully someone had transcribed the image to text BEFORE the resize happened
04:00 πŸ”— Raccoon also seen them deres svg images by simplifying/reducing points and rounding corners
04:01 πŸ”— Raccoon so they can't be blown up in the future
04:01 πŸ”— atphoenix racoon, yes it's pathetic
04:02 πŸ”— atphoenix it's not even really saving meaningful space. What's a few GB these days?
04:02 πŸ”— HP_Archiv In other words, digital archivists here and elsewhere, pretty much have to keep quiet about their activities because of copyright or legal reasons. And I guess my question, or beef, is why does it have to be this way? And has it always been this way?
04:02 πŸ”— Raccoon they just don't want to be accused by Pepsi Co for being the source of trademark infringements
04:04 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I feel like an open community, or an open way of doing all of this - having conversations with corporate types where something meaningful comes about - would be far more pro-active instead of trying to stealthily save stuff from the ether
04:05 πŸ”— atphoenix HP_Archiv, I think archivists and culture-savors have long been fringe-y until their work is appreciated decades later when the originals have been burnt in media warehouse fires (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire or intentionally destroyed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who#Missing_episodes )
04:05 πŸ”— Raccoon HP_Archiv: it wasn't always this way. back in the day, when the concept of copyright was first introduced and discussed, people scratched their heads and said "well, we're a people of story-tellers and song-singers. what do you mean we can't tell this story or sing that song? people can own these things now?"
04:05 πŸ”— Raccoon and after much debate and reflection, people settled on "ok, in the interest of promoting the creative arts, we will allow a 7 year monetization period of any published work." "ok, and add another 7 years if they can show good reason why."
04:06 πŸ”— Raccoon fast forward to today, after it was extended from 7 to 14 to 28 years, then 50 then 75 then 95 and 100 years.
04:06 πŸ”— atphoenix they also may get lumped in with hoarders
04:06 πŸ”— nicolas17 mickey law
04:06 πŸ”— Raccoon now it's 100 years after death in many instances.
04:06 πŸ”— Raccoon mickey, but also sunny bono
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04:06 πŸ”— Raccoon oddly enough
04:06 πŸ”— nicolas17 I wonder how to make my works public domain 1 second after death... is a will the route for that?
04:07 πŸ”— Raccoon sad thing too, is that most of the world doesn't even recognize "public domain"
04:07 πŸ”— Raccoon which is why creative commons had to come to exist
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04:07 πŸ”— nicolas17 yeah CC0 or wtfpl
04:07 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Exactly my point ^^ So it's only after time has it's affect that academic-type institutions take notice and then over time the saved cultural heritage is revered, looked after, studied, etc. What an ass-backwards way of trying to learn about ourselves...
04:07 πŸ”— Raccoon a license that asserts no bond
04:08 πŸ”— nicolas17 WTFPL FAQ:
04:08 πŸ”— nicolas17 Isn’t this license basically public domain?
04:08 πŸ”— nicolas17 Unfortunately, the definition of public domain varies with the jurisdictions, and it is in some places debatable whether someone who has not been dead for the last seventy years is entitled to put their own work in the public domain.
04:08 πŸ”— Raccoon fact of the matter is, all intellectual property is belongs to the people. Copyright law is very clear, that congress has a duty to assure that all intellectual works MUST ENTER the Public Domain within a reasonable period of time, the shortest period made possible.
04:09 πŸ”— Raccoon It is the natural, resting disposition, of all published intellectual works that they belong to the cultural herritage and national conscience
04:09 πŸ”— nicolas17 it's crazy how little people know about copyright
04:10 πŸ”— Raccoon default, everything is Public Domain, with a "brief monetization period."
04:10 πŸ”— nicolas17 I saw a post on... imgur I think it was? someone complaining that an online publication used their photo without permission or attribution
04:10 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I take the high-level approach, the ideal, the romanticized notion of all of this, and that is the greater context of why we having anything saved at all. It wasn't intentional, maybe, but the outcome of our saved, curated, and preserved cultural knowledge is cultural evolution. And it's this and our amazing ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances that has allowed us to flourish as a species.
04:10 πŸ”— nicolas17 and there were lots of comments saying "well you should have copyrighted it"
04:10 πŸ”— nicolas17 and like, that's not how this works
04:11 πŸ”— Raccoon heh, indeed
04:11 πŸ”— nicolas17 since 1886
04:11 πŸ”— Raccoon well, since the late 90s
04:11 πŸ”— Raccoon the copyright office hasn't been taking declarations of copyright
04:11 πŸ”— Raccoon er late 1900s
04:11 πŸ”— Raccoon somewhere in the 70's i think
04:12 πŸ”— nicolas17 the United States was particularly late to implementing the Berne Convention (1988)
04:13 πŸ”— Raccoon the biggest problem I see in current copyright enforcement, is that publishers now make it practice to wield Copyright as a weapon to supress and make unavailable
04:13 πŸ”— Raccoon Copyright law is (was?) very clear that copyright cannot be used this way.
04:13 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I just look at all of this time, I see the notifications for this channel and #youtubearchive, how many times people submit things in any given day. How many countless hours spent dedicating time of everyone's personal life to try to save as much as we can. And I simply worry that 1. it's not going to be easily parsed in the future, and 2. it's an unsustainable activity without the support of other entities and the general
04:13 πŸ”— HP_Archiv public.
04:14 πŸ”— Raccoon Why publishers don't immediately and automatically forfeit their copyright claims upon minute-1 of a book going out of print, or a movie becoming unavailable (ie, Song of the South), is beyond me.
04:14 πŸ”— Raccoon Bill Cosby used Copyright to prevent Fat Albert from ever being rebroadcast or sold on DVD
04:14 πŸ”— Raccoon said it's too racist to ever be seen again
04:15 πŸ”— Raccoon that should make it automatically public domain, stripping him of rights
04:15 πŸ”— Raccoon or was it Michael Jackson
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix Example of something that might be reasonable (IMO): Default (free) is 5 years copyright from publishing date. Extendable indefinitely in 5 years increments BUT extension fee starts at say $1000 and quadruples each time it is renewed.
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix Year: Price
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 0: free
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 5: $1k
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 10: $4k
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 15: $16k
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 20: $64k
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 25 $256k
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 30: $1M
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 35: $4M
04:16 πŸ”— atphoenix 40: $16M
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix 45: $64M
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix 50:$128M
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix 55:$256M
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix 60:$512M
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix 65: $1B
04:17 πŸ”— godane Raccoon: Song of the south is pubic domain i think in japan
04:17 πŸ”— Raccoon something.
04:17 πŸ”— HP_Archiv One last anecdote is that instead of subtly trying to archive as much of YT as we can, I think the IA should attempt to bring Sundar Pichai into the conversation. Google should be part of the conversation of web/internet preservation. Brewster should try to bring the leaders of these tech companies into the archives space and have a healthy conversation and/or debate.
04:17 πŸ”— atphoenix eventually the renewal fee will be high enough that the value of paying renewal is not there. No more Mickey Mouse 100 years thing.
04:17 πŸ”— Raccoon here's another terrible side effect. ever notice how hollywood cranks out really shitty remakes and sequels?
04:18 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I think that's a more sustainable path IMO ^^
04:18 πŸ”— Raccoon that's a trademark hold
04:18 πŸ”— OrIdow6 No incentive
04:18 πŸ”— atphoenix and yes, out of print, no longer readily available content should automatically revert to PD
04:18 πŸ”— nicolas17 what about obsolete software?
04:18 πŸ”— Raccoon they create a shit movie so they can prevent anyone else from using their marks
04:18 πŸ”— nicolas17 why the fuck are MS-DOS applications still under copyright protection?
04:18 πŸ”— atphoenix obsolete=out of print/no longer available
04:19 πŸ”— godane computer software should only have about 5 years of copyright
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04:20 πŸ”— godane anything released is now just updated all the time
04:20 πŸ”— atphoenix well, maybe 5 years since that software build was released.
04:20 πŸ”— Raccoon about MS-DOS applications, et al old software, I wish we would organize a group that proactively engages companies and coders to release their source code for the preservation of culture and technological achievement
04:20 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Idk if the rest of you agree, but Google, for example, certainly would have the infrastructure and resources to dedicate to open-preservation. I can see it as an open-consortium of sorts,backed by non-profits like Gates Foundation, etc.
04:21 πŸ”— Raccoon we literally need to write to Microsoft, and to Joe I Wrote A Game In 1994, asking for their source files
04:21 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I guess this is what they attempted with the Google Books Project, but then were halted due to outdates copyright law. So maybe that was, indeed, their official attempt
04:21 πŸ”— atphoenix effort needs buy-in from someone with clout in the tech billionaire class
04:21 πŸ”— HP_Archiv That's just it ^^
04:21 πŸ”— HP_Archiv These guys should 'get this'
04:22 πŸ”— HP_Archiv It's their bread and butter, they're in tech after all
04:22 πŸ”— OrIdow6 Getting company to preserve doesn't make money, & there's nothing grandly special about preservation, vs. feeding the poor etc., that will bypass the profit incentive
04:22 πŸ”— nicolas17 did y'all see Software Heritage?
04:22 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Yes - nicholas17, good step in the right direction.
04:22 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Glad Piql partnered with Github
04:23 πŸ”— HP_Archiv OrIdow6, that's shortsighted, I think. Both are equally important.
04:23 πŸ”— Raccoon OrIdow6: and it's so much worse than that. Publishers actually find themselves in a situation where their back catalogue becomes a liablity -- whether a legal liability, or a social justice rabble liability.
04:23 πŸ”— Raccoon And releasing content from their back catalogue steals away dollars from the new releases and top 50
04:24 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Raccoon, does it though? We've seen a surge in retro video game re-releases as of late. I would think that would just reinforce loyal fans to buy the new titles as well?
04:24 πŸ”— atphoenix On tech billionaire buy in making a difference: it's what happened with electric cars. Someone with money/tech/engineering background (Musk) got involved in Tesla early on. Saw the realistic potential. And said this can be a thing.
04:24 πŸ”— Raccoon You can't dump The Hair Bear Bunch on Netflix for binge watching, without stealing away eyes from Whatever New Is On
04:25 πŸ”— HP_Archiv atphonexi: I sort of agree. I am not convinced that Musk' visions have been fully realized, if they ever will at all. Still very early on.
04:25 πŸ”— OrIdow6 HP_Archiv: What I mean is that companies by their nature focus on profit, instead of putting it into "good" causes; in the same way that Google gives money back to its shareholders, instead of giving it to the hungry, it gives money to its shareholders, instead of spending it on presevation
04:25 πŸ”— Raccoon HP_Archiv: you mean shitty Atari Classic and Nintendo Classic consoles with games built in? They're just over-priced novelties that aren't likely to impinge on the sale of the latest Nintendo or XBox console
04:25 πŸ”— Raccoon You still have to pay like $60 for them
04:26 πŸ”— atphoenix it isn't necessary to fully realize visions to make a meaningful difference in the direction society is taking
04:26 πŸ”— HP_Archiv OrIdow6, doesn't have to be that way though. And yeah, yeah, a lot of things don't 'have to be that way, but are', heh. I get that. But at some point it might make more sense to upend the incentives structure...
04:27 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Racooon, well I can't think of any one, specific retro title re-release that paid homage to its original counterpart, but I'm sure there has to be a few, no?
04:27 πŸ”— HP_Archiv That was successful and not cheap/cheesy*
04:27 πŸ”— Raccoon But books and movies take X number of eyeball-hours to read.
04:27 πŸ”— atphoenix The 5 year renewal fee examples I suggested could go into a creative works funding pot.
04:28 πŸ”— Raccoon the video media industry is all about eyeball-hours
04:28 πŸ”— Raccoon even the book industry
04:28 πŸ”— atphoenix Don't pay the fee? item is now PD. Not reversible
04:28 πŸ”— atphoenix Item has no value to you? Don't pay the fee.
04:28 πŸ”— Raccoon oh. i have a youtube video that will make you guys angry and also cry to sleep tonight.
04:28 πŸ”— Raccoon it has to do with videogames and licenses
04:29 πŸ”— Raccoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkxzQDo0ng
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04:29 πŸ”— Raccoon this isn't the only title. there are over 800 titles currently affected
04:29 πŸ”— HP_Archiv atphoenix, remains to be seen with Tesla, as an example. The real game-changer is storing energy in the form or better battery technologies. That, or energy breakthroughs in a new form altogether. The 'I drive an electric car' is pretty short-sighed, but kind of necessary if you look at the long-perspective. eg. it'll take another 100 years to get off of cars entirely before we figure out another entirely different mode of
04:29 πŸ”— HP_Archiv transportation
04:30 πŸ”— HP_Archiv eg. it's the best we have until we get to where we're going
04:30 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Almost like 2 steps forward, one step backward
04:31 πŸ”— atphoenix We didn't get off vacuum tubes overnight. Nor off of memory cores. Or drum storage.
04:31 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Exactly. Progress is incredibly, excruciatingly slow, heh
04:32 πŸ”— Raccoon hint (video above): Game publishers are no able to publish their games indefinitely. Licneses for game content have a built-in time bomb. Music, trademark people names and logos, even 3d models of vehicle makes. the rights holders give the video game publisher, often, a max of 5 years and 5 years only, with no renewal option.
04:32 πŸ”— atphoenix but if you don't push the tech...it also doesn't advance. Apollo program pushed tech *hard*.
04:32 πŸ”— HP_Archiv This ^^ Good point
04:33 πŸ”— HP_Archiv And also , Raccoon, great point too
04:33 πŸ”— Raccoon since most games are download-only, or remote server host, the game publisher is required to delete the game after 1825 days.
04:33 πŸ”— Raccoon day 1826 and they get sued for a million dollars
04:34 πŸ”— atphoenix Games aren't the victims. Eyes on the Prize was stuck in limbo for 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Screen
04:34 πŸ”— Raccoon watch that video
04:35 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Well anyway, thanks all for reading my rants, heh. The thoughts and ideas I've expressed here over the past half hour have been plaguing my mind for a while. Again, I just see all of this as a time-suck and worry that it hopefully won't all be for naught. One nice little anecdote, is that like Tesla and the electric car movement generally, rogue/fringe archiving of the web is the best we can do at the moment
04:35 πŸ”— atphoenix there will be a gap in video gaming history starting with the online-dependent games
04:36 πŸ”— atphoenix and Google Stadia won't help that
04:37 πŸ”— atphoenix Raccoon, video is queued for me
04:38 πŸ”— Raccoon atphoenix: good article. of related note, the famous MLK "I had a dream" public address belongs to a company in the UK and cannot be screened in classrooms without a hefty royalty.
04:38 πŸ”— nicolas17 wtf
04:39 πŸ”— Raccoon the MLK family estate owns the audio, and the UK company owns the video
04:39 πŸ”— nicolas17 meanwhile in Argentina photocopying textbooks is the norm
04:39 πŸ”— atphoenix don't sing happy birthday either
04:39 πŸ”— Raccoon that was fixed 2 years ago~
04:39 πŸ”— atphoenix was it?
04:39 πŸ”— Raccoon Happy Birthday has been unshackled
04:39 πŸ”— Raccoon by the courts
04:40 πŸ”— nicolas17 you know what's still weird to me
04:40 πŸ”— nicolas17 game mods
04:40 πŸ”— Raccoon turns out the rights holders lied and never held rights
04:40 πŸ”— Raccoon they extorted people out of money for some 40 or 50 yeras
04:41 πŸ”— atphoenix wow, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#2013_lawsuit
04:41 πŸ”— nicolas17 some games have no license (as in EULA) saying what you can or can't do with it, players reverse-engineer them and make patches and mods and release them, and the original developers applaud them... yet they would be fully in their legal right to sue them if they happened not to like them
04:41 πŸ”— Raccoon nicolas17: many have and do
04:41 πŸ”— atphoenix Blizzard is notorious
04:41 πŸ”— Raccoon I think Rockstar Games goes after everyone
04:42 πŸ”— atphoenix they killed many-a-mod of Warcraft II and Starcraft
04:42 πŸ”— Raccoon man, Starcraft (original) mods were fantastic
04:42 πŸ”— HP_Archiv This is why I brought MODDB.com to the attention of the Ops in here...
04:42 πŸ”— nicolas17 someone asked for archival of https://ragepluginhook.wixsite.com/ragepluginbackup a few days ago
04:42 πŸ”— atphoenix There was a Starwars-themed mod for Warcraft or Starcraft. And there was the StarDraft project.
04:42 πŸ”— nicolas17 I think they haven't come back since
04:42 πŸ”— Raccoon Well, this is intersting too
04:43 πŸ”— Raccoon George Lucas was very pro-fan and allowed all sorts of fan fiction, even encouraged it
04:43 πŸ”— Raccoon Now Disney owns this shit, and Disney don't play dat
04:44 πŸ”— HP_Archiv ModDB.com would be a huge crawl, I was told. But it should be archived, by right. Actually, if I remember, I think someone submitted this into AB when I requested a few months back... I forget
04:44 πŸ”— Raccoon Good luck finding 'Sexy Slave Disney-Princess Leia' costumes anymore
04:45 πŸ”— Raccoon probably banned from Comic Con
04:45 πŸ”— atphoenix a mention of stardraft: https://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/comments/67kd77/stardraft_starcraft_unit_editor/
04:46 πŸ”— Raccoon HP_Archiv: still don't understand one thing. If your friend owns it, then why can't he drop the database in your lap. Then it doesn't have to be web crawled.
04:46 πŸ”— atphoenix years ago I think I attempted to save a copy of their forums before it died. I have many old drives I need to go through.
04:46 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Who said I have a friend who owns ModDB?
04:46 πŸ”— Raccoon You just spit a list of external links to a download queue.
04:46 πŸ”— Raccoon HP_Archiv: I thought that was the story. for the harry potter site
04:46 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I have no idea who the owner is, certainly not friends with him.
04:47 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Oh, that's different. There are HP modds from various modders/gamers on ModDB
04:47 πŸ”— HP_Archiv HP-Games.net was the site I wanted into AB that has outlinks to hosted files on Yandex and GDrive
04:48 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Still have to get around to doing that... But I meant the entire Moddb.com site, if it hasn't already been archived
04:49 πŸ”— OrIdow6 I assumed that "HP" in your name stood for "Hewlett-Packard"; "Harry Potter" makes more sense
04:49 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Lol it's all good
04:50 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I've made so many site requests in here I honestly forget if Moddb has been taken care of or not. I remember that someone, maybe JAA did this I forget, mentioned the mod files are hosted right there on the main site from their ftp address. I *think* they got it, don't remember
04:54 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I just checked it's been archived - https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/www.moddb.com
04:55 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I'm working on a few archiving projects at once, juggling work, personal life, etc. So apologies if I seem scatter brained, heh
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04:56 πŸ”— atphoenix I'm finding that doing AT-things can easily be a full time job
04:56 πŸ”— Raccoon we curate what we can because we must
04:57 πŸ”— atphoenix I am so thankful Firefox can handle crazy amounts of tabs these days. 1300+ from all the various yahoo groups stuff and 8tracks stuff and other non-AT stuff...
04:57 πŸ”— Raccoon weee
04:57 πŸ”— HP_Archiv This was my point earlier ^^ That a lot of time is spent doing this, I hope, is not all for naught. I mean, eventually time has the final say. Even the best preserved physical documents and film will eventually disintegrate.
04:58 πŸ”— HP_Archiv But that keeping one step ahead of that unstoppable process, we can move, or migrate information over millennia enough to where things are not lost for good :)
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04:59 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Actually, we can think of this time period as 'the great migration', e.g. digitization
05:00 πŸ”— HP_Archiv In which there will be many more to come in the future
05:01 πŸ”— Raccoon Find a probate attorney to draft up a Will you can use to make sure all your harddisks are boxed up and shipped to JAA or Jason Scott upon your death.
05:03 πŸ”— Raccoon Let them deal with properly cataloging and sorting :p
05:03 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Lol
05:04 πŸ”— HP_Archiv I've shipped contents, a physical hard drive, to IA HQ in San Francisco before. Snowballing data in that way, bypassing the internet entirely is a smart, more efficient method
05:06 πŸ”— Raccoon if it gets there. occasionally have to worry about Stasi intercepting your data and treating it as contraband/munitions.
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05:07 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Well, in my case, this was film data, DPX files. I think I talked about this with you before, Raccoon :)
05:07 πŸ”— Frogging Raccoon: well, hopefully you don't send your only copy of it in the mail....
05:07 πŸ”— Frogging :p
05:07 πŸ”— HP_Archiv 1.7TBs uploading to the IA through through the browser was impractical. So contacted them and they were happy to accept a physical drive to snowball the data in that way
05:08 πŸ”— Frogging Also I don't think Jason wants to deal with some guy's box of hard drives
05:08 πŸ”— Frogging could be wrong, maybe that's exactly what he wants to deal with :p
05:09 πŸ”— Raccoon Just label them "Scanned Magazines"
05:09 πŸ”— Raccoon actually contains 8 TB of IRC logs
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05:13 πŸ”— atphoenix I bet Jason would *love* some old BBS hard drives. Full contents.
05:14 πŸ”— atphoenix perfect for textfiles.com
05:14 πŸ”— Raccoon 8 TB of logs of somebody playing door games, mostly pimp wars
05:15 πŸ”— atphoenix what of Trade Wars 2002?
05:15 πŸ”— atphoenix I bought the license to that for our local BBS
05:15 πŸ”— Raccoon that'd be too interesting :)
05:15 πŸ”— HP_Archiv Nice chatting with you guys, I'm off here for a while. Have a good evening/night ^^
05:15 πŸ”— atphoenix anyhow, if all else fails, there is one other big archive out there...in Utah...
05:15 πŸ”— Raccoon night HP
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05:16 πŸ”— atphoenix (congress has the keys to that one)
05:20 πŸ”— Raccoon the Hoover Natl Monument.
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05:27 πŸ”— atphoenix That is an interesting name for it. Haven't heard it called that. But maybe someday it will be.
05:27 πŸ”— atphoenix double meaning too. J.E.Hoover and also vacuuming...
05:28 πŸ”— Raccoon I just made it up :)
05:28 πŸ”— atphoenix sucks up all data
05:28 πŸ”— Raccoon Does anyone know if AT did a project to rescue podcasts from the now-defunct site/app called Bumper
05:29 πŸ”— Raccoon A content creator asked if anyone might have backed up his podcasts @ https://youtu.be/1330RHvXQrU?t=197
05:35 πŸ”— atphoenix doesn't look like it. I don't see it listed in Deathwatch. Found this article https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee
05:44 πŸ”— astrid i don't recall such a project
05:46 πŸ”— Somebody2 HP_Archiv (if you read logs) -- IA (which we aren't the same as), does have quite a bit of wide public and institutional support.
05:48 πŸ”— markedL HP_Archiv usually doesn't read logs
05:48 πŸ”— Somebody2 And they have a whole department, Archive-It, devoted to providing web archiving as a service to institutions (more or less all of which goes into the WBM)
05:48 πŸ”— Somebody2 markedL: Ah well.
05:49 πŸ”— Somebody2 And there are various organizations doing web archiving totally independent of IA, although none as well known.
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06:00 πŸ”— Somebody2 and as for stuff being hard to access -- that can actually be a *bonus* to preservation, in some cases, as it keeps people who object
06:00 πŸ”— Somebody2 ... to the stuff being available from either realizing it is, or finding it too accessible for their taste
06:00 πŸ”— Somebody2 OK, that's *my* rant over.
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07:12 πŸ”— atphoenix Somebody2, yes, lack of accessibility (which often means not showing up in a common search engine) cuts both ways. Accessible stuff is more easily removed and possibly destroyed. Not unlike antiquities excavated from archaeological digs, then placed in accessible museums, and then are destroyed by those who feel threatened by history.
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07:18 πŸ”— atphoenix The stuff that really survives sometimes is that which is preserved by being out of reach (buried, unknown, remote). This also complicates relations between nations that are holding ancient relics that were taken from other nations. Should everything be given back to the original nation? Or are the offsite remote relic collections actually a good thing, especially in case of severe societal upset and political turmoil? At
07:18 πŸ”— atphoenix least with digital we have the possibility of keeping perfect remote copies, so we don't have an issue about physical, uncloneable objects to contend with.
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07:36 πŸ”— oxguy3 hey could someone toss https://media.miamidolphins.com/ into archivebot? hasn't made it into WBM since the 2019 nfl season started; also seems to be poor WBM coverage for linked files
07:47 πŸ”— Ryz !archive https://media.miamidolphins.com/ --explain "For oxguy3; 'hasn't made it into WBM since the 2019 nfl season started'; 'poor WBM coverage for linked files'" --concurrency 1 --ignoreset blogs
07:48 πŸ”— Ryz ...Whoops
07:48 πŸ”— oxguy3 lol, thanks!
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16:27 πŸ”— JAA "< Midnight> I was gonna put Clementine on there." Hmm, I wonder why? Project seems active still despite no official releases since 2016 (but 1.4rc1 was tagged yesterday and there has been a three-year break between releases before).
16:39 πŸ”— Somebody2 atphoenix: Yes indeed! I agree with with all that.
16:41 πŸ”— JAA Let's find a billionaire that is willing to pay for a full IA mirror on Svalbard. :-)
16:42 πŸ”— Somebody2 Yes please! :-)
16:45 πŸ”— marked1 google says there's only 2,604 of those, should be easy
16:46 πŸ”— JAA Thank you for volunteering.
16:46 πŸ”— JAA :-P
16:50 πŸ”— marked1 the billionaires I've met don't return my calls, better luck to cold call or write to their foundations
16:52 πŸ”— atphoenix I don't think I've knowingly met a billionaire.
16:52 πŸ”— atphoenix the comments about a billionaire tech leader being involved in tech archive efforts were less so about the money for running the archive (which I think is crowd sourceable), and more so about the power/influence that leader could have in creating a sea change in how tech handles these issues. E.g. having the founders of the likes of Apple/Microsoft/Google/Facebook onboard would be huge
16:58 πŸ”— JAA You're either overestimating crowdsourcing or underestimating the cost of building an IA mirror on Svalbard (or in a similar location).
17:00 πŸ”— marked1 Bezos (or his team) has a public email address
17:00 πŸ”— JAA But there's another issue with having billionaires on board: an archive has to be fully independent so its contents can't be manipulated.
17:00 πŸ”— marked1 Gates and Zuckerburg have active foundations
17:05 πŸ”— pew \]\
17:05 πŸ”— pew oops
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17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix I see some (not all) of storage needed for archiving, especially for creating redundancy (but not for live access), as being crowd-sourceable. Large scale distributed archiving is what I had in mind for creating an IA mirror. Split IA into shards (such that each shard is meaningful even if others are somehow lost), distribute 10 copies of each shard to 10 distinct locations.
17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix In torrent terms, at least 1 seed (IA), maybe a 2nd (IA Egypt), and the rest of the copies are distributed virtual copies. The DrivePool and DriveBender software tools can do something sort of similar to this proposal across Windows filesystems (copies of files are maintained, redundancy is present, but unlike RAID, if more drives are lost than the configured redundancy level, the remaining drives are still readable, with
17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix intact files.) Goal is failure of the redundancy mechanism should not result complete data loss.
17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix On scale: 60 PB = 6000 10 TB drives. x10 for 10 copies = 60000 10 TB drives, distributed around the world. At 500 GB/month (say for participants with 1 TB data caps) that is a 20 month commitment to populate the drive or retrieve a full drive). End user cost is the price of dedicating a drive and energy to run it and the computer it is connected to...maybe as basic as a RPi. Or an old laptop booted from a USB flash drive.
17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix Are there 60,000 people across the world in the various archive/datahoarder/fan communities with $200 that they are willing to spend towards the effort? Chances go up if the barriers to entry are lowered by making participation easy. Higher still if the effort is made personal to them by designing the system to let them opt-in/out of certain archived data that is tagged by categories/characteristics. Even higher if they can
17:50 πŸ”— atphoenix indicate specific data they want included in the public set (maybe identified by file hash?).
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19:09 πŸ”— JAA atphoenix: So basically, IA.BAK
19:13 πŸ”— atphoenix those are basically thoughts that dovetail into IA.BAK + Valhalla
19:26 πŸ”— atphoenix Jens, you posted about the inquirer last month, now it is on Deathwatch. Do you know if archivebot finished covering it?
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20:34 πŸ”— SootBectr re: Blackberry. In addition to the 75,751 app ids listed by their website api I have json details for a further 49,880 from when I was downloading incrementally. These aren't publicly visible on the website.
20:40 πŸ”— SootBectr Checking one, the icon+screenshots for it are still downloadable. I'll have a look at downloading images for all of this stuff sometime.
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21:17 πŸ”— godane SketchCow: so Collider Videos youtube channel has 9278 video ids
21:18 πŸ”— godane you can make the id list with this : youtube-dl -j --flat-playlist https://www.youtube.com/user/ColliderVideos/videos | jq -r '.id' > list.txt
21:18 πŸ”— godane i'm going to see about grabbing the older videos first
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