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MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online

Posted by kdawson on from the light-of-day dept.

networkBoy writes with word that The Register is following up its story about the Microsoft dirty tricks archive going offline. It appears that several individuals have the pieces to the puzzle and are looking for hosting resources. From the latter article: "The 3,000 document archive from the Comes antitrust trial, which disappeared from the web abruptly when Microsoft settled the case last week, is beginning to trickle back into view. A week ago the site was placed under password protection, Microsoft withdrew its own account of events, and so-called internet 'archive' archive.org apparently also pulled its mirror."

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  1. As John Gilmore (from EFF) wisely said by vivaoporto · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it"

  2. I have 1.6GB of the best stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    where shall i send it, and by what means?

    $ du --si
    23M ./attachments
    11M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011207
    154M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000
    108M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/1000
    93M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000
    173M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000
    265M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000
    152M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000
    118M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/6000
    126M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/7000
    119M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/8000
    94M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000
    1.5G ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607
    12M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607p2
    619k ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/01162007
    13M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011707
    5.8M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011807
    3.8M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/011907
    1.2M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/012307
    10M ./www.iowaconsumercase.org/012507
    1.6G ./www.iowaconsumercase.org
    1.6G .

    1. Re:I have 1.6GB of the best stuff by shudde · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Personally I'd put it on the darknets, Tor and Freenet both have sites dedicated to preserving unpopular/threatened/censored information. I'd imagine that I2P would have similar resources although I'm not personally familiar with it.

      While darknet sites aren't reachable by the average computer users, this allows the more technically-minded to repopulate the mainstream net with the content when torrents or public hosts are taken down.

  3. Re:Is there someone at Archive.org we can ask why? by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The people who run archive.org aren't immune from copyright law.

    Isn't anything entered into evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding automatically part of the public domain?

    --
    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  4. Re:mod down Thread Hijackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    An AC, p'ist because he/she didn't get fp... That's not the point. I've gotten many a first or higher-up post (non-anonymously) with a valid comment and then someone replies to it and starts up a completely new discussion that has nothing to do with what I wrote. The only reason they do that is to give their post visibility near the top of the page so that it increases their changes of positive moderation. So people get a reply notification, read what the other person wrote, and then think "What the hell? I wasn't even talking about that!" only to have their time wasted because, in fact, their post was purposely off-topic because they just jacked your thread.

    It's fine if you don't understand that and think my comment concerns "TEH FROSTY P1SS" or some such nonsense, but do please try and keep up next time.
  5. Re:Is there someone at Archive.org we can ask why? by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Isn't that the tactic that the Church of Scientology uses to shut up its critics? Using copyright law to prevent critical discussion of their materials?

    I don't think that copyright is the issue here, though; court records and submitted evidence wouldn't be covered by that, if I understand correctly.

  6. MS Dirty Tricks? by BoRegardless · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is news? Ballmer blasting companies that say or post things he doesn't like is news?

    This is starting to sound like Anna Nicole in a way, but it is neat to see Slashdotters responding with their own caches of materials & Ballmer will not be able to do a cover up.

    Managing MS must be a real pain for Ballmer at this point. He & Billy Gates probably spend far more time trying to fend off issues & competition than they ever spend on "innovations".