Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout
from the the-archive-team-strikes-again dept
We've discussed in the past the importance of preserving our digital history, including the excellent work the famed Archive Team has done rescuing and archiving various sites as they're being shut down. Of course, sites that are shutting down are not all that's worth preserving. There are also timely events that have value as well. For example, the amazing and powerful SOPA blackouts and online protests from January 18th. That was an historic moment, but it was just one day. Plenty of sites, including ours, showed some of the more interesting sites from the blackout, but there were so may that participated. Could you save them all?It appears that the Archive Team did exactly that, archiving every site they could find that took part in the protests. The team has now released the entire archive as a 13.6 GB zipped download (don't click that unless you want to start downloading the whole thing). If you'd just like to see a listing of what's included in the file, you can see that too (though, that's also a pretty long list, so beware).
Kudos, once again, to the Archive Team for preserving important digital moments in history and making them widely available.
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Might I add, so self-important that you have the never ending urge to come here every day, every post spouting baseless claims and attacks with not a single justification for your views on the topics. The fact you trolls show up here is justification enough that what Mike does is important...and it threatens you (or your paymasters) directly.
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Wasn't the government's demand to delete all of Megaupload's data AND demand for them to not have a functioning legal defence team enough of a wet dream for you?
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Awesome!
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Unidirectional government established broadcasting monopolies should never be permitted to be used for commercial purposes.
Preserving some signals for things like GPS and emergency broadcasting are OK, things like cell phone use (some of which is unlicensed) and emergency calling is OK, but any commercial communication should be done over spectra that everyone has an equal opportunity to transmit information over following equal rules.
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For everyone else:
http://webcasts.barouhandpartners.com/marietje_schaake/a_stakeholder_hearing_about_acta
He starts speaking around 1:00h, but the whole thing is interesting.
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Screen Shots
No where near 13.6GB worth, but some pretty good ones. I liked the ingenuity of some of them. The Oatmeal did a good one.
http://techfleece.com/2012/01/18/screenshots-of-sopa-pipa-website-protests/
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Looked at the list, and I believe it's far from a full list. Many sites shut down without fanfare, and there were a couple sites setup where you could pledge that you would be shutting down. I don't know how they got their list of sites to preserve. Commendable, but not complete.
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My site wasn't there
Granted, my site isn't very important. It just has various photographs I've taken over the years.
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Also, Jan 18th is my birthday, so it gave me a personal reason to participate. :-)
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http://sopastrike.com/on-strike/
And even this list is (I believe) only sites that signed up on sopastrike.com
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Still missing
With that said I cannot help but to notice that they missed out the blackout of my very own website. This is kind of odd when I did well to publish this fact on Blackout Day including on this very website.
Although finding my 5 minutes of fame is proving difficult people can still see what I put up on Blackout Day here...
http://cardman.com/sopa.shtml
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