Internet Archive Switzerland
- miki123211 - 63908 sekunder sedanIA needs to do what Usenet has done. Have a bunch of mission-aligned but unrelated orgs (under different ownership and distributed around the world) that peer with each other, distribute all the content obtained by any of the orgs to each other, but that have no technical channel nor capability to distribute DMCA complaints and takedown requests.
This is (AFAIK) basically how Usenet piracy works. You send your warez to one provider, and that provider instantly replicates them to all the providers they peer with, recursively, until they eventually reach the entire network. When any of those providers get a DMCA complaint, they remove the offending files (as they're required to do by law), but they don't inform other providers that they've received a DMCA notice, so those providers keep serving those files. This makes it much harder to remove data from the network than it is to add it.
- input_sh - 86062 sekunder sedanRelevant blog post: https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzer...
> Internet Archive Switzerland joins a growing group of mission-aligned organizations, alongside Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada, and Internet Archive Europe. Together, these independent libraries strengthen a shared vision: building a distributed, resilient digital library for the world.
- insom - 86474 sekunder sedanThat website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :)
This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I wonder how separate it is.
Internet Archive Canada (I worked there in 2024) operated like it was a subsidiary, even though I think it was technically an independent organization with some shared directors. Same Slack, same archive.org email domain, etc.
IA.ch has Brewster and Caslon on the board.
I suspect that for the political threats of the current decade the different Internet Archive organisations need to start operating more independently, especially when it comes to funding?
- teew - 67018 sekunder sedanThe About Us section states:
> We are a team of change-makers who believe that every helping hand can raise a child and create a better future for them.
Which I found weird. And searching for this phrase yields many site-hits verbatim, which is even weirder. Anyone know what is up with that? Is it some kind of filler text?
Edit: I guess it's from a template, the Contact section is also mumbo-jumbo (address: 123 Fifth Avenue, NY and so on).
- imtomt - 67508 sekunder sedanHuh. I can’t find the actual... archive. It mentions an AI archive less than 10 sentences in, and has a couple of links, but seems void of any actually archived content.
- red_admiral - 85044 sekunder sedanSankt Gallen's more physical archive is worth a visit too: https://www.stiftsbezirk.ch/de/stiftsbibliothek/
- dopidopHN2 - 10159 sekunder sedanI have a related question on the domain archive.org
I've noticed that this domain now host content subject to copyright.
As a example : entire season of startrek "voyager" are randomly hosted there in direct download.
Why? Is that not a liability?
- Animats - 59516 sekunder sedanOh, good. We need more backups.
The one in Egypt doesn't get updated.
- colinmegill - 67178 sekunder sedanIf you are running that thing, and reading this post: just do the right thing and get your own name.
- consumer451 - 76296 sekunder sedanStop complaining about availability. Instead, create a solution.
If tpb dot org can still exist ...
At least these people tried. We need a p2p archive solution ASAP. Before our history is entirely re-written.
- DeadEye2111 - 84951 sekunder sedanVery proud of my alma mater town to be a place for this. It’s much needed infrastructure for Europe.
- kennykartman - 50070 sekunder sedanI'm so happy about this. Really. I cannot overstate how much important the internet archive is for all of us.
- idovmamane - 72103 sekunder sedanSt Gallen has been archiving knowledge for over a thousand years. Now they are archiving AI models before they get retrained out of existence. The location is not a coincidence…
- jrochkind1 - 29614 sekunder sedan> collecting the generative AI wave that is currently upon us all.
I don't understand what this means?
- anant-singhal - 36837 sekunder sedanThe uncomfortable part is that “preserving knowledge” sounds universally good until copyright law present themselves.
- arian_ - 75796 sekunder sedanFinally a Swiss account I can afford to open.
- springtimesun - 86253 sekunder sedanAh, good, they are also mirroring the page load speed of the internet archive
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- Vasbarlog - 86662 sekunder sedanHugged to death? I can’t access the page.
- addedGone - 62016 sekunder sedanLet's hope they don't use Google captcha and KYC everyone.
- damnitbuilds - 142834 sekunder sedan"Its efforts will initially focus on [...] and collecting the generative AI wave that is currently upon us all."
Why would they want to collect the AI wave ?!
But about time the Internet Archive had a US-independent backup.
- ok123456 - 68366 sekunder sedanWhere's the search bar at the top to search the archive?
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- latenightcoding - 63269 sekunder sedan>> Gen AI ARchive
isn't this a nightmare for privacy
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- ukanhaupa - 68311 sekunder sedancool!
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- zkmon - 77856 sekunder sedanAnything that is being built today, based on the assumptions about the future that extend into multiple years, is bound to fade away. Because the "future no longer what it used be". What's the envisaged future context and purpose where this would save the world?
Nördnytt! 🤓