Electronic Cottage #3 removed by the Internet Archive

7/8/2018

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

Lord Litter link

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.

Probably some kind of algorithm *found* something in EC - even if there was nothing. I guess things like these will happen now that the internet is getting into a new phase of *data security*.

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. :)

Electronic Cottage
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Hal McGee

I have been making my own homemade experimental music since 1981.

I was an active participant in the 1980s Cassette Culture scene, and I operated the Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Service and label, and recorded solo as Dog As Master, and in a duo as Viscera.

I published six issues of the original Electronic Cottage print magazine, 1989-91.

In the last 44 years I have recorded, produced and released more than 300 solo audio works, collaborations and compilations.

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