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[–] 147 points 11 months ago (9 children)

In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”

In case you wanted to know what was lost.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago

    I'm kind of amazed that only that and the 78's archive was lost. At least there's Project Gutenberg et al to help with the books, and meanwhile the IA does still archive a vast load of video material, software, and no doubt, other stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    How many of them are not backed up somewhere else?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Most of them are still "on" the Internet Archive.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo's lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.

    Except that's all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that's missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the "removed" games.

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