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The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.”

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[–] 165 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    We need to archive the Internet Archive.

    Maybe put it in international waters.

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    • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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/

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    • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    The Internet Archive really is an irreplaceable treasure.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    preserving history, one website resurrection at the time. thanks, internet archive.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Watch them cry copyright on a bunch of shit they had no interest in maintaining.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    All I want to know is what do Ja think about this?

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