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The Internet Archive needs your help.
A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.
This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.
At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.
This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.
Sign our open letter and tell the record labels to drop their lawsuit.
Please sign this petition. Almost all of the 500k books that they removed are actually no longer in print and inaccessible to many.
The publishers did not care about those books in the first place but they did this anyway because they have vendetta against open access.
OMFG this is the coolest thing I've seen in my whole life especially the clay versions of max and Ibe<3
Banana Fish Miscellaneous (magazine clippings + artwork)
First few images were sent to me by @i-swim-best-free-for-the-team :) last two from fujisima_sumire on twitter.
i actually need this
Banana Fish miscellaneous merchandise 1990s (?)
Always think the colored artworks are cool. The shogakukan box just felt like artwork I’ve never seen before
i love you dolphin emulator i love you melonds i love you vimm's lair i love you myrient i love you r/roms i love you r/piracy i love you qbittorrent i love you internet archive i love you fitgirl
thank you for keeping gaming free and fuck legalese bootlickers
My first internet archive upload. (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧
A scan of the cover of the Jet Li Movie Black Mask.
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Jet Li's Black Mask -1998/color/102mins/VHS
Directed by Daniel Lee
Writers: Hark Tsui, Koan Hui, and Teddy Chan
Stars: Jet Li, Ching Wan Lau, and Karen Mok
Condition is Used, has fringed corners. color scheme black and red.
Back of the Box Blurb: Martial art sensation Jet Li("Lethal Weapon 4") takes action to a new level of intensity as the super human agent Black Mask ! When the Orchestral murders of Hong Kong drug lords are linked to a commando group known as squad 701, its up to a one time super soldier known as Black Mask to stop their plan in this action packed martial arts blow-out.
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Backstory: My parents and grandparents own all kinds of vinyl VHS and DVDs, So I decided to virtually archive some of them along with some other things we have here in storage. I have a lot fond memories watching Martial Arts Films with my grandmother so these films have a soft place in my heart. As a Person of Color I found that martial arts has a very soft spot in our communities. Constantly being revisited over and over in movies, music videos, anime, and art. It seems we find kinship in the idea of overcoming an oppressive force (for obvious reasons). You definitely can't fight the evil regime without a martial arts scene.
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- March 2024
Internet Archive finds #001: Hacking the Xbox, An introduction to Reverse Engineering by Andrew "Bunnie" Huang. (full read)
"In the beginning, a hacker was someone who worked passionately for the sake of curiosity and exploration. There were hardware hackers who took it upon themselves to remove the covers from computers to optimize their design (early computers were built out of discrete components, so they could be modified in meaningful ways with simple tools), and there were software hackers who labored to make the most compact and elegant code, since computational resources were scarce and slow. There were hackers who explored the ins and outs of the phone system, and those who explored the roofs and tunnels of buildings of university campuses. Quite often, early hackers engaged in all of these activities. Hackers would share their findings or results (hacks) with each other freely, as their rewards were not financial, but came from satisfying their intellectual curiosity and from the enthusiasm of their peers." - Andrew "bunnie" Huang.
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Interesting thought from a friend:
Jail breaking. Reverse engineering. Without these we wouldn’t have emulation which is kinda saving a lot of peoples childhoods seeing as actual physical copies are skyrocketing in the retro gaming market. People are afraid physical media is going to completely phase out because everything’s going digital. So people are taking advantage of the market in some arguably bullshit ways. Ya know business. -Xora March 2024
There's a special cruelty involved when you include the "um's" in the subtitles.
This, um ... the sheer earnestness of this makes me kind of sad.
The Happiness Show Episode 32 - How Thoughts Determine Our Happiness