Tag: Digital Libraries
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MTV News Website Shutdown Sparks Heated Archiving Debate
The sudden shutdown of MTV News and the removal of its archives has led to significant online discourse about the importance of preserving digital cultural heritage. The abrupt disappearance of years of music news and youth culture reporting has shocked many who grew up with the channel as a primary source of information about the…
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Why You Should Consider Seeding Torrents for Anna’s Archive: Ethical Dilemmas and Practical Advice
With the staggering amount of over 500 terabytes of digital books and papers, Anna’s Archive aims to preserve one of the most comprehensive collections of human knowledge available. The initiative emerges as a successor to well-known platforms like Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, which have long been bastions for free and unfettered access to academic publications…