cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14303847
Despite Paramount Global’s corporate decision to purge MTV News’ online content (as well as that of Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT), much of the site has been resurrected on the Internet Archive, which now offers “a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news.”
The internet archive is up there with Wikipedia as one of the most important things we’ve created over the past few years
Please don’t fuck this up America
We need to archive the Internet Archive.
Maybe put it in international waters.
“And lo the corporations built their own navy, or maybe bought the US Navy which amounted to the same thing…”
The RCIA, Radio Caroline Internet Archive
I don’t think people know just how much information is on the archive. There is a section with literally thousands of FREE, legally, concert recordings.
If you’re reading this and haven’t yet donated to the internet archive I encourage you to do so. They do important work that is crucial to preserving the history of the internet.
And sign their Open Letter to Publishers, which will help demonstrate public support during their ongoing lawsuit:
https://change.org/LetReadersRead
https://blog.archive.org/2024/07/01/what-happened-last-friday-in-hachette-v-internet-archive/
I’ve been conditioned to believe change.org is beyond useless but if that’s what they’re requesting I guess I’ll throw my hat in
Thanks for sharing this. Just signed.
The Internet Archive really is an irreplaceable treasure.
preserving history, one website resurrection at the time. thanks, internet archive.
Watch them cry copyright on a bunch of shit they had no interest in maintaining.
All I want to know is what do Ja think about this?
