 A few months ago I uploaded the third print issue of Electronic Cottage to the Internet Archive. Yesterday I went to the page and it was gone! Without warning or explanation! As you can see by visiting the page the only thing on the page are these words:
This item is no longer available. Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the uploader or due to a violation of our Terms of Use. Does anybody have any clues or guesses as to what happened? Many of you like to use archive.org and regularly praise it here at the EC site, and talk about how "permanent" it seems. You may wish to re-consider whether the Internet Archive is a good place to upload your stuff.
4 Comments
7/8/2018 10:13:56
I recently realised that the internet archive is now increasingly taking down material that was obviously violating copyright - like movies by big companies that are definitely copyrighted.
Chris Phinney
7/8/2018 10:56:37
Someone maybe complained dunno or they found something they thought violated copyright?
C. Goff III
7/8/2018 11:16:15
Before this whole thing gets out of hand with comments, I've got many years of experience using the archive, and this is not a problem. The archive has hundreds of billions of pages, they service servers regularly, things get moved around, re-organized. I've had this announcement come up on occasions with my own hundreds of posts -- it's nothing to worry about. I've many times communicated with the tech people at the archive about this and many other issues. I'm pretty sure Hal's post is gonna be back up in a few days. Wipe the sweat off, all is well.
Hal McGee
7/8/2018 11:20:10
C3, thanks! With your reassurances, I have removed the post from the EC Home Page. :) Leave a Reply. |
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ELECTRONIC COTTAGE is an international magazine where independent artists, musicians, writers and freethinkers share in-depth articles, essays, interviews, tech and gear reviews and tutorials,
and much more.
EC draws inspiration from the Cassette Culture Revolution of the 1980s, 90s and beyond; Mail Art, Small Press and Zines, Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise.
EC values inclusion, democracy, experimentation, independence and freedom of thought and expression, open-minded exchange, and Community.
From this moment forward the Electronic Cottage website will primarily be an online magazine for the publication of lengthy and in-depth articles, essays, and interviews.
For those of you who use Facebook I have created an Electronic Cottage Group, which will be a casual social gathering place of the EC Community, where EC people can meet, share artwork and news of current projects and releases.
The EC website will continue as before, and I encourage those of you who do not use Facebook to use the FORUM page here at the EC website to post miscellaneous thoughts and personal updates.
The website and this EC Facebook Group are two separate but connected entities of the greater EC Community.
and much more.
EC draws inspiration from the Cassette Culture Revolution of the 1980s, 90s and beyond; Mail Art, Small Press and Zines, Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise.
EC values inclusion, democracy, experimentation, independence and freedom of thought and expression, open-minded exchange, and Community.
From this moment forward the Electronic Cottage website will primarily be an online magazine for the publication of lengthy and in-depth articles, essays, and interviews.
For those of you who use Facebook I have created an Electronic Cottage Group, which will be a casual social gathering place of the EC Community, where EC people can meet, share artwork and news of current projects and releases.
The EC website will continue as before, and I encourage those of you who do not use Facebook to use the FORUM page here at the EC website to post miscellaneous thoughts and personal updates.
The website and this EC Facebook Group are two separate but connected entities of the greater EC Community.