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- LOTF, Library of the Future. In the past five years the California State University System had "Deselected" over 2 million print items, and in the next couple of years plans on "deselecting" million if not 10's of millions more, the goal in the next 5 years is 60% of all print in the 22 libraries of the CSU, or about 18 millions Books!
Man I loved the way Women looked back in the 70s at this time..
This is what women were supposed to look like in 2018, when Rollerball is supposed to take place-the reality is enough to make a grown man cry...
@@Charliecomet82 Note the gadget and technology in this scene became obsolete before the 21st Century. But they did what they could with 1974 technology.
No fugly tattoos, no obese heifers, no opoid drug problems. Yeah, women of the 70's look a whole lot better than the trash waddling around with cellphones glued to their hoofs nowadays!
@@p70581 well they are using a knockout model,but point taken
Especially wearing no bras and having plenty of grass on the field.
I keep on telling people never give up on hard INK-ON-PAPER PRINTED copies of everything under the Sun!
A book, once printed, can not be censored. I even have several mechanical typewriters that are built to last and has their own re-inkers so that their black ribbons won't run out of graphite-carbon. Old books are priceless and invaluable reference material as a foundation for checking and cross-checking, or referencing and cross referencing new data with old data, new information with old information, present edition to past editions over the years and decades and centuries SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW IF YOU ARE BEING LIED TO OR NOT! Books, when they become old, DO NOT BECOME OBSOLETE OR OUT OF DATE, THEY AUTOMATICALLY BECOME PRICELESS AND VALUABLE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF PRICELESS AND VALUABLE OLD INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN USE AS A COUNTER-CROSS REFERENCING INFORMATION MATERIAL TO COMPARE WITH YOUR NEW INFORMATION MATERIAL SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE "HISTORICAL CHANGES" FROM THE PRESENT AND GOING BACK TO THE PAST. And so that you will know that either you were being lied to or being undereducated by your own teachers.
Wow calm down and take your tin foil hat off for once...
@@IceWarrior101Your lazy cliché aside, this is already happening. I know several people who have published books on Kindle and they can get updated versions put up immediately. The positive side of this is that errors can be corrected and content added. The negative side is that content can be removed
The ultimate controller is Google search. It performs 90% of searches. It excludes a lot of content now, especially blogs.
Soon all the worlds books will be scanned in. Much more convenient. Searchable . Come join the world
@@mattkanter1729 Don't you have an ounce of wisdom and COMMON SENSE? I thank God that the first order of OF MY GOVERNMENT IN THE KREMLIN is to gather all the books printed in the world and all natural species and varieties of each specie of plants in the world. In one of the many duplicated microfilm archives of the Kremlin and in many parts of Russia I have seen text books meant for students grades 1 to 7, high school students 1st year to 4th year high school. And college text books for college students from 1st year to 4th year college in all fields of science, engineering, technology, trades, vocations, shops schools, etc.
And everything were systematically well organized using the dewey decimal system and based on the systematic grades level from elementary, high school, and college up to bachelor degrees, masters degrees, and doctorates degrees. The search and gathering and collection started in the 20s going way back to 1900 and then to 1800 and 1700, etc and at the same time going to the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, up to the present year 2016.
Microfilming is sill extensively used by my government for it was already a matured technology in 1900 and the technology has constantly been improved on and expounded upon continuously. And all of the books, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, conversion tables, mini-mags, pocket books, hard bound books, paperbacks, maps, etc were all systematically searched for, collected, duplicated, microfilmed many dozens of times over, carefully preserved, AND PROTECTED AS IF WE ARE PROTECTING A STATE SECRET because these are our insurance against both man-made catastrophes and natural catastrophes. We even went so far to set up the numerous laboratories and machine tool shops needed and used by these scientists, engineers, technologists, technicians, master machinists, doctors, surgeons, etc.
The books were reprinted many times in both English and in Russian, the other books written in foreign languages such as German, France, Japanese, etc were translated into English and in Russian and in their original languages using high quality archival printing ink and high quality archival paper. I also have seen the old books of Europe printed many centuries ago and their quality is VERY HIGH INDEED AS IF THEY WERE PRINTED JUST A WEEKS AGO! Unlike today's so called quality ink and paper.
All the titles' editions were systematically purchased, from the present edition going back to the very first edition. Nothing is left to chance. That is our insurance against nuclear war, against the lost of knowledge because of war. I have seen one such facility in my younger years during the Cold War and the technicians told me this installation is one of many hundreds spread all over Russia in places that are still under Russian control.
The early collections were vacuum sealed, now all conventional books during the 60s were reprinted in archival permanent paper with archival permanent ink and we have maintained this program up to the present, and then the original books were vacuum sealed again.
The reason for books and microfilms is that, properly made and handled, can last for many centuries. A conventional book-based library can simultaneously show you what you are looking for and show what you should also be looking for but did not bother to search for it for you are not aware of it's existence.
And at the same time, during your search a book-based library will show you many different titles and subjects that will raise and broaden the horizon of your curiosity and awareness thus offering you a "BROAD HORIZON VISION EFFECT. A computer will only show you what you are only looking for and as a result it does not broaden your intellectual horizon and interests for a computer limits you to a "A NARROW TUNNEL VISION EFFECT".
That shows you that the more online-computer dependent you are the less you learn and the less you are aware of the existence of other knowledge and wisdom and written experiences and that destroy's your intellectual prowess. Where as a conventional "BOOK-BASED LIBRARY" shows you everything regardless whether you are searching for it or not, regardless whether you are interested in it or not. BUT YOU ARE GIVEN THE SHEER LUCK AND BLESSINGS OF BEING GIVEN THE GENEROSITY OF BEING MADE AWARE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT BOOKS AND TITLES AND SUBJECTS, ETC and thus giving you a broad horizon of intellectual vision and awareness of 'EVERYTHING!" A computer just gives you a limited narrow tunnel vision. Today, it is confirmed by scientists all over the world that PEOPLE LEARN BETTER AND MORE WITH PAPER-BASED BOOKS AND WITH OTHER FORMS OF PRINTED MEDIA.
I rather have an analog microfilm book auto-optical-mechanical scanner which is beyond the control of internet censorship and break down of technological society for everything is "PERMANENTLY PRINTED" as a series of supermicrofilmed square shaped microdots on a photochromic glass ceramic card containing hundreds of thousands of books. All controls are manually analog but can be connected to an analog-to-digital interfacing equipment.
We Russians had developed in the 80s a static multi-phase array diode-based reading sensor that can simultaneously read all of these microdots simultaneously and systematically scan, copy, and transfer the data in a highly organized manner in chronological order and in alphabetical order which is similar to the old fashioned catalog cabinet system which we still maintain parallel with our computer system. And during the 60s we have developed a microfilm-to-book reprinter technology which made it easier to convert microfilmed books back into printed paper-based book media. Yes we still use the old fashion transistors, diodes, resistors, inductors, capacitors, etc on old fashion printed circuit boards hand wired and manually soldered and manually tested. BUT THE MAIN AIM IS THAT IT WORKS PERFECTLY WITH FLYING COLORS!
God’s Grace
@DrJibson
Your exactly right. The same way big tech planned their complete take over of information the political enemies have planned this for decades. Both Democrats and Republicans.
The reason School systems don't want to teach Cursive writing is so future generations can't read American's founding documents. This is just ONE of many examples on why we DON'T want everything Digital.
Great film. Even greater short story.
The film, in total, is just an average "excuse", a "decoration" - for this 5-6 minutes of pure geniality.
I liked James Caan in this. Soft-spoken and sensitive, yet badass.
He was a loud Sonny Corleone. But he's quiet here, Cinderella Liberty and especially Thief.
Great performance in a great movie. It needs Caan to make it work.
Rest his soul
@@sprinter517 Whoaaaaaaa!!!! I didn't know he'd died. :(
A great movie!!! These philosophical moments really elevated the movie for me.
The girl in the library was played by Nancy Bleier. She passed away May 28, 2020
oh. She played in Moonraker.
@@blankpage555 no
@@robertwilson214 she did
@@robertwilson214 th-cam.com/video/FZVsMOOTvhs/w-d-xo.html
@@blankpage555 ok what part did she play
Digitally _transcribing_ books and other works (photographs, audio- & moving-picture recordings, periodical publications, et al) is one thing. _Editing_ them in the process, though, is quite another.
Yes it is. Who's to stop them?
0:14 Moonpie was trying to decide whether to hit on her or not!!!!!
He had definitely made his decision by 0:55.
Zero the Computer is running Windows 10 Million.
Jeez, you would've thought Jonathan E. had asked the computer to divide a number by zero, or something.
My own house is more like the National Library Of The Russian Federation and my neighbors in my village in Kazan jokingly called my house as The Little National Library Of Russia because it is more of a library than a house even though 80% of it is converted to a library. They say my own house is like that, more like a library than a house with wall to wall, floor to ceiling book shelves and book shelves in the middle of the rooms. And they're filled to the brim. From 1800 to 1900 books of all kinds, and from 1900 to 2016 books of all kinds, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, maps, magazines, booklets, mini-mags, paperbacks, hard bound books, blue prints and schematics, calendars, conversion tables and conversion formulas, textbooks, THE WORKS! And most important is the microfilm library with their redundant microfilm cassette tapes and readers and microfilm to reprinters and microfilm to computers, and back up computer data-information storage to microfilm writers, etc. No pests, no dust, practically cool and dry with carbon-dioxide extinguishers everywhere. And with a photocopier and microfilm scanner-writer for I always make it a habit to photocopy and microfilm everything on archival paper and archival silver halide microfilm. And my most favorite are the dot-matrix printers that is continuously printing everything that I do with my computer, even at this very moment. Noisy? Yes, but worth it! And I am an avid book collector-buyer too.
I keep on telling people never give up on hard INK-ON-PAPER PRINTED copies of everything under the Sun!
A book, once printed, can not be censored. I even have several mechanical typewriters that are built to last and has their own re-inkers so that their black ribbons won't run out of graphite-carbon. Old books are priceless and invaluable reference material as a foundation for checking and cross-checking, or referencing and cross referencing new data with old data, new information with old information, present edition to past editions over the years and decades and centuries SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW IF YOU ARE BEING LIED TO OR NOT! Books, when they become old, DO NOT BECOME OBSOLETE OR OUT OF DATE, THEY AUTOMATICALLY BECOME PRICELESS AND VALUABLE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF PRICELESS AND VALUABLE OLD INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN USE AS A COUNTER-CROSS REFERENCING INFORMATION MATERIAL TO COMPARE WITH YOUR NEW INFORMATION MATERIAL SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE "HISTORICAL CHANGES" FROM THE PRESENT AND GOING BACK TO THE PAST. And so that you will know that either you were being lied to or being undereducated by your own teachers.
I have been warning people for many decades of a DIGITAL DARK AGE TO BE FOLLOWED BY A DIGITAL TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP BY YOUR OWN ISPs and it became a reality in the form of shadow banning, unauthorized data scrubbing- sabotage, unauthorized surveillance by Big Brother, illegal-criminal acts of your information being sold by your own ISPs, etc and THE WORKS! That is why I keep telling people keep your old mechanical typewriters on hand for they are better than the electric typewriters and electronic typewriters. If they can send data through the power grid then they can also hack your computers through their electrical sockets!
In fact, in my own printed-book based library, I have several aisles of OLD American textbooks that can teach your young American students everything that they need to know and become geniuses in math and science. And these old American and European textbooks dates back to 1900. Fortunately too, in my younger years (I am 92 years old this year of 2018) I have them all microfilmed several times, at least 4 to 5 copies of each title and stored in my own microfilm library in an organized Dewey Decimal System. I also have the printed books and printed manuals used by teachers in teaching students going way back to 1900 and to 1800 and I have them all microfilmed several times so as to have 4 to 5 microfilm copies per title.
During the Cold War we have combined silver halide supermicrofilming with frame film and with self-developing Polaroid technologies because we know that magnetic tapes and conventional frame films can not last for hundreds of years and we have video-audio recordings of the present going way back to the past. In the 1980s you have video-audio vinyl records and players which you have abandon but we did not abandon that technology, we upgraded it by using the grooves to be video recorded on supermicrofilms by a precision photonic writer mounted on a piezo-ceramic vibrating writers. And all of the required program is hardwired on a TRANSISTORIZED (NO IC CHIP ALLOWED) printed circuit boards that can read the grooves and simultaneously convert it to both pictures and sounds. My technicians who are photronic specialists and several engineers who are photronic specialists (photronics is also known as optronics which is a shortened word for optical-electronics but the electronics are all ANALOG, NOT DIGITAL) has in the past late 70s and early 80s developed the equivalent of your Western VCR and DVD recorder-players for military purposes. If you ask, why we are avoiding IC chips as much as possible, then the answer to that is EMP that can fry all of your IC chip dependent world in seconds!
We all should have an independent server with 4 to 5 rendundant servers so that anything that goes in goes through our server before it goes into an ISP's server and anything that goes out goes through our server before going into an ISP's server by using a SPLITTER similar to the one used on the multi-raid 1 hard drive system of our computers and of our ASOM system and ASOP system. The result? Nothing is lost if TH-cam or Google or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter tries to do anything funny with our internet connection. IMPORTANTLY WE RUSSIANS HAVE THEIR BALLS IN A PAIR OF GIANT PLIERS BECAUSE WE HAVE VACCINATED THE INTERNET AND ALL COMPUTERS WITH OUR MIMIC PROGRAMMING WHICH IS OUR DEAD HAND CYBER WARFARE AGAINST ALL ISPs, HACKERS, GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE, THE WORKS!
Because my technicians in the past has equipped my decades old computer with a multi-router/re-router I can practically send a computer signal from the middle of Russia and through an innocent American family's PC computer regardless whether they are using or not and only as long as it is turned on, and that same technology I can use to anonymously use any ISP's server facilities without them knowing it. As for your mirroring your content, have your own non-stop multi-raid 1 server system with an SCT hardwired programming, SCT stands for SCAN-COPY-TRANSFER programming. It scans a computers' contents such as websites, commentaries, e-mails, links, hyperlinks, THE WORKS and then copies it all like a Xerox photocopying machine and then transfers the DUPLICATED-COPIED DATA to an another hard drive inside a multi-raid 1 non-stop server which is equipped with a an ASOM system and ASOP system. Expensive? Yes! But is it worth it? Yes! So that if something happens to the digital systems, then the analog systems is our emergency information supporting auxiliary systems.
This is just like 'Siri'. Only with beige leisure suits. We will miss you, Jonathan E.
Poor old, 13th Century. Very prophetic in the sense that misinformation is our modern curse.
That woman is absolutely gorgeous!
LOTF, Library of the Future. In the past five years the California State University System had "Deselected" over 2 million print items, and in the next couple of years plans on "deselecting" million if not 10's of millions more, the goal in the next 5 years is 60% of all print in the 22 libraries of the CSU, or about 18 millions Books!
Heaven help us if, in the future, we all go back to polyester leisure suits...
I love this film, but I still love how no SciFi film predicted the internet lol
WarGames came very close.
Just Dante and a few corrupt Popes
1:18 Imagine what that scientists would've been like if he'd gotten to meet Jonathan after the game against New York!!!!!
Part 2
Storage Vs. Preservation
Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not. Preservation means keeping the stored information cataloged, accessible, and usable on current media, which requires constant effort and expense. Furthermore, while contemporary information has economic value and pays its way, there is no business case for archives, so the creators or original collectors of digital information rarely have the incentive-- or skills, or continuity-to preserve their material. It's a task for long-lived nonprofit organizations such as libraries, universities, and government agencies, which may or may not have the mandate and funding to do the job. University of California, Berkeley, archivist Howard Besser points out that digital artifacts are increasingly complex to revive. For starters you've got the viewing problem--a book displays itself, but the contents of a CDROM are invisible until opened on something. Then there's the scrambling problem--the innumerable ways that files are compressed and, increasingly, encrypted. There are interrelationship problems--hypertext or web site links active in the original but now dead ends. And translation problems occur in the way different media behave--just as a photograph of a painting is not the same experience as the painting, looking through a screen is not the same as experiencing an immersion medium; watching a game is not the same as playing the game. For all these reasons, archivists now encourage tagging all digital artifacts with a rich supply of "metadata" --digital information about the artifact telling what it is and how it works. A number of professional organizations are working on setting consistent (and expandable) standards for metadata. Gradually a set of "best practices" is emerging for ensuring digital continuity: use the most common file formats, avoid compression where possible, keep a log of changes to a file, employ standard metadata, make multiple copies, and so forth.
And don't forget atomic backup--while the durability of bits is still moot, the atoms in ink on paper have great stability.
Net: Haven Or Horror?
What about the net? Everything can be dumped there, everything can be retrieved there, and fairly universal standards such as TCP/IP emerge there. New talents emerge there as well. The net is responsible for the legions of "emulators" who keep finding new ways to revive old games such as "Pac Man" and "Frogger" for play on new computers. Vernacular archivists such as the emulators are one hopeful wave of the future. Massively distributed research like that can convene enormous power. Another example: thanks to the current interest in family genealogy, the thousands of users of a program called "Family Tree Maker" are linking their research into a "World Family Tree" on the web. So far it has tied together 75,000 family trees, a total of 50 million names. The goal, once unthinkable, is to eventually document and link every named human who ever lived. With the net, preservation goes fractal--infinitely branched instead of centralized. But that leaves the question: Is the net itself profoundly robust and immortal, or is it the most ephemeral digital artifact of all? At present the web has a "memory" of about two months, says web archivist Brewster Kahle.
What is the solution? We cannot reverse the digitization of everything. What we have to do is convert the design of software from brittle to resilient, from heedlessly headlong to responsible, and from time-corrupted to time-embracing. These are intractable problems. For certain, none of them can be solved in a year, but all of them can yield to decades of focused work, if the health of civilization is understood to be at stake.
Thinking In The Long Term
"The real problem" says computer designer Hillis, "is not technological. We have the technical understanding to solve problems such as digital degradation. What we don't have yet in our digital culture is the habit of long-term thinking that supports preservation .... In the early 2000s people will realize that we're not at the end of something-we're at the beginning. There really will be a year 3000 and 4000 and so on. Once that idea is more widely accepted, the engineers who are thinking about the next digital medium will naturally think about how it lasts .... "
Hillis is more of an optimist than I am. I think it will take insistent, knowledgeable, unremitting demand from librarians and archivists for long-lived digital media, or the engineers will never take the problem seriously enough. If that happens, then librarian Lyman's hope might be realized: "I'd say that what's motivating us is not just a fear of losing what we have, but of being able to build something new out of this digital rubble that we've created-to build something that's really quite amazing, that may be as much of a landmark on our civilization as the Library of Alexandria was in the ancient world."
Comment
From Nick Reid
6-23-3
Stewart Brand's article underlines a signifcant but often covered aspect of the largely vendor-marketing driven systems obsolescence that renders much of current official history essentially unsaveable in the long term.
What is far less often mentioned, although someone (not me) should be mentioning it in fora such as yours, is the massive theft of personal history that is incurred by the same corrupt process.
While the records our grandparents kept of their thoughts and major life events were fewer and far more sensorially limited than those common today - handwritten diaries, black and white photos, etc - what they put down when they were courting was readily available when their granchildren were exploring their own adult relationships. The older people become, the more important to their contentment such personal mementos seem to be. But today's digital generation can look forward to a far sparser trip down memory lane than their near ancestors had.
Corporate deceisions are made by corperate executives...no further informaton is available.system is temperarily offline
This is why I have never accepted an e-reader
Delection or an act of putting a book out of circulation is AN ACT OF INDIRECT AND SUBTLE CENSORSHIP WHICH IS A CRIME UNDER THE CURRENT RULES BASED ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT OF THE U.S CONSTITUTION BECAUSE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION MEANS YOU MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE INVESTIGATING AND STUDYING SO THAT YOU CAN EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE AGAINST IT OR FOR IT AND THAT IS AN INDIRECT ACT OF VIOLATION OF THE 1ST AMENDMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN-BASED U.S CONSTITUTION.
The cardinal and original function of libraries are to become the repositories of knowledge to safegauard them from destruction and censorship and to make all knowledge of all the ages from the present to the primitive past available at all times and in all places regardless of how old or obsolete they and regardless if people are interested in them or not for the ABSOLUTE RULE OF A LIBRARY SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL OF THEIR CREATION IS TO MAKE ALL KNOWLEDGE REGARDLESS OF THEIR EXTREME AGE, UNACCEPTABLE NATURE, LACK OF POPULARITY, LACK OF INTERESTS MUST BE PRESENTLY AVAILABLE FOR CIRCULATION FOREVER FOR ALL TIME AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL PLACES UNIVERSALLY. or somebody EVIL WANTS TO ILLEGALLY wanted them illegally censored by illegally DESELECTING them which an indirect and subtle crime against the 1st Amendment of the Christian-Based U.S Constitution. THE VERY ACT OF DESELECTION IS AN INDIRECT AND SUBTLE ACT OF AN ILLEGAL ACT AND CRIMINAL ACT CALLED CENSORSHIP WHICH IS A U.S CONSTITUTIONAL CRIME PUNISHABLE BY OUTRIGHT IMPRISONMENT, HEAVY FINES, CONFISCATION OF ALL ASSETS, NO PAROLE, NO PARDONS.
The Existence Of Libraries Under Threat
The spread and popularity of the Internet is threatening the existence of public libraries, which find themselves increasingly unable to match the service provided by home computers. Already (1990s) they are reducing their collection of books to make way for a growing collection of audio and audio-visual media, as well as supplying personal computers that can access the Internet.
Foundation Of Knowledge In Danger
The newly available media replacing printed books are selected for their popularity, which has become the controlling factor for librarians. Serious works by authors such as Gibbon, Locke and Hume are slowly relegated through of lack of demand to the stack, before their inevitable abandonment. The library services controlled by various councils are slowly adapting to growth of technology by becoming Internet sites themselves, but these are not built around the classical works that once made up the heart of every public library. The selection of works being digitised is invariably parochial and populist, being concerned only with Australian antiquity and local issues (see letter from the Queensland Cultural Centre). Though their web pages often include a list of sites that do offer some traditional works, these recommended links carry no guarantee of accuracy or availability, nor are they connected to the library in any official capacity.
Certainty Vanishes In A Flash
Once knowledge existed on the printed page, which was a stable medium, difficult to alter and easy to read, and insensibly supplied certainty. Laws, agreements, observations, the transactions of a communal mind, could all be written down to be later produced to allay any doubts or suspicions. Promises, ownership and wealth became embedded in the certainty supplied by contracts, title deeds and paper money. Naturally this was not fool-proof but it gave the community a good deal of certainty. But this certainty is now being eroded by electronic replacements; fast, convenient and beyond the power of an individual to check. The message once heralded by a solid, unchanging, document is now proclaimed by a computer screen. The tangible proof supplied by paper has been replaced by a medium that can be changed faster than the blink of an eye, without leaving a single trace. Certainty has vanished in a flash.
The Danger of E-Books
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In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.
With printed books,
You can buy one with cash, anonymously.
Then you own it.
You are not required to sign a license that restricts your use of it.
The format is known, and no proprietary technology is needed to read the book.
You can give, lend or sell the book to another.
You can, physically, scan and copy the book, and it's sometimes lawful under copyright.
Nobody has the power to destroy your book.
Contrast that with Amazon e-books (fairly typical):
Amazon requires users to identify themselves to get an e-book.
In some countries, including the US, Amazon says the user cannot own the e-book.
Amazon requires the user to accept a restrictive license on use of the e-book.
The format is secret, and only proprietary user-restricting software can read it at all.
An ersatz “lending” is allowed for some books, for a limited time, but only by specifying by name another user of the same system. No giving or selling.
To copy the e-book is impossible due to Digital Restrictions Management in the player and prohibited by the license, which is more restrictive than copyright law.
Amazon can remotely delete the e-book using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.
Even one of these infringements makes e-books a step backward from printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom.
The e-book companies say denying our traditional freedoms is necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system supports those companies handsomely and most authors badly. We can support authors better in other ways that don't require curtailing our freedom, and even legalize sharing. Two methods I've suggested are:
To distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each author's popularity.[1]
To design players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments.
E-books need not attack our freedom (Project Gutenberg's e-books don't), but they will if companies get to decide. It's up to us to stop them.
Join the fight: sign up at DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html.
Footnotes
See both my speech “Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks” and my 2012 open letter to the President of the Brazilian Senate, Senator José Sarney, for more on this.
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Richard Stallman: Break free of e-book 'chains'
Jun 08, 2011, 15:02 (9 Talkback[s])
"In a piece titled "The Danger of E-books" (PDF), Stallman bemoans the e-book's loss of freedoms that most of us take for granted with physical books and places the blame on corporate powers.
"Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead," he said. "We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom...E-books need not attack our freedom, but they will if companies get to decide. It's up to us to stop them."
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By Daemon_ZOGG Jun 08, 2011, 20:02
I have hated ebooks, because of their proprietary formats and DRM. As well as the portable ebook readers. And then there's things like Amazon deleting ebooks from customers' Kindle readers due to price disputes between Amazon and the publisher. Imagine if you purchased a physical book from a bookstore and when you woke up the next morning, it was already repossessed by the bookstore without your permission and your money refunded. I'll stick with my analog books. No powersource required, I can resell it as used, anyone can read it unincumbered. And the bookstore/publisher isn't getting it back! Books in general were meant to freely spread knowledge to the world. Not vaulted behind the glass and limited only to membership.
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By John Helms Jun 08, 2011, 21:02
"No powersource required, I can resell it as used, anyone can read it unincumbered."
In addition....
No worries about screen lighting
No need to upgrade the "reader"......ever
No file storage issues...well....except for the occasional leaky roof kind of thing.
Some distant evolved member of our, or some other intelligent species. may find a real book buried in an archeological dig at some point in the future and actually have a chance to learn something about us, not likely with an ebook.
I CAN share a real book with anyone I want.
No slimeball corporation can stop me from doing whatever I want with a real book including....
using it for fireplace starter should the need arise.
Ebooks are a greedy corporations wet dream.
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By philc Jun 08, 2011, 22:51
I'm staying on the side lines until ebooks are distributed in unencrypted, non-patent encumbered, standards based form with the simple rule "don't give copies to other people". Pretty much any book reader software on any device must be able to read them.
Until then I will continue to enjoy the printed editions.
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By jimgo Jun 09, 2011, 00:39
Don't know what the fuss is about. I am a librarian (so books are my business) and have been using an ebook reader for over a year. I have never bought an ebook and have no intension of ever buying one, unless it is free of DRM.
Like paper book, a "real" ebook uses ambient lighting, is easy on the eyes but allows you to take a library with you when you travel, and is lighter than a paper book. Of course I still read paper books sometimes.
The number of legally free (even recent) epub books is staggering. Corporations have lost the battle to lock in ebooks with DRM.
:jim
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By Bernard Swiss Jun 09, 2011, 03:50
Well, there's things like this, for example:
Library Journal -- ALA President Criticizes HarperCollins Ebook Lending Policy
www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889672-264/ala_president_criticizes_harpercollins_ebook.html.csp
New York Times -- A Limit on Lending E-Books
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/a-limit-on-lending-e-books/
(The ALA (American Library Association) has just recently launched a page to track e-book issues in the news
www.emergingissues.ala.org/ebooks-and-libraries/ebooks-news-reports-statistics/)
Apparrently, there's a boycott happening...
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By Grishnakh Jun 09, 2011, 23:34
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No worries about screen lighting
A decent ebook reader doesn't have any more problems with screen lighting than a paper book. That's why they invented "e-ink": it uses zero power, and is reflective and has no backlight.
Don't complain about screen lighting on ebook readers just because B&N went to LCD for their color Nook.
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No need to upgrade the "reader"......ever
A strength that is also a weakness. You can't upgrade your paper books, except with handwriting. This might not be much of an issue in a novel, but for instance for a computer book, it is. O'Reilly publishes an errata page on their website for each of their books, because of technical errors that made it through to printing. With ebooks, this doesn't have to be a problem (don't know if they actually update ebooks, though, since I don't have an ebook reader myself, just saying this is a possible advantage).
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No file storage issues...well....except for the occasional leaky roof kind of thing.
Another weakness. I can store a small library of ebooks or PDFs on a single SD card the size of my fingernail. There's no way that paper books can remotely compare to ebooks as far as storage goes.
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Some distant evolved member of our, or some other intelligent species. may find a real book buried in an archeological dig at some point in the future and actually have a chance to learn something about us, not likely with an ebook.
Maybe, maybe not. PDF is an open specification, as is ASCII, along with some other ebook spec out there. If your ebooks are in open specs without DRM, and on a robust storage medium, it probably has a much better chance of being discovered and deciphered than a paper book. Paper disintegrates rapidly, and if you think any of your paper books are going to last more than a couple hundred years, you're sadly mistaken. Look at all the documents we still have from the Roman ages or before: they're all on either stone tablets, papyrus, or parchment. Not paper. Paper is a rather poor medium and requires careful storage to avoid very fast biodecomposition.
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I CAN share a real book with anyone I want.
You can do the same with a real ebook, with a simple "cp" command. Plus, you can keep your own copy!
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No slimeball corporation can stop me from doing whatever I want with a real book including....
Same with an ebook, as long as you don't buy the DRMed kind.
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By Valdis Grinbergs Jun 10, 2011, 01:27
Ebooks are not the problem, DRM is. I enjoy reading free public domain ebooks on Project Gutenberg (see www.gutenberg.org/ ). They do not have the latest books, but for literature that has stood the test of time, getting an ebook from Project Gutenberg is easier than hunting it down in the local libraries.
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By Greg P Jun 10, 2011, 16:38
> Ebooks are not the problem, DRM is. I enjoy reading free public domain ebooks on Project Gutenberg (see www.gutenberg.org/ ).
Ditto. Once you get an ebook reader (I have a Kindle), you can quickly realize that you can directly upload to your Kindle from your computer.
You can use calibre to convert whatever it will load to a MOBI format, then either manually upload or even use amazon's email method to automatic upload wirelessly. I see that Amazon says they "might" charge for converting some other format to MOBI in the process, but no mention of charging for a MOBI file you might send.
There is a lot of great literature out there that is totally free on Project Gutenberg.
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By emk Sep 28, 2011, 14:38
All the reasons that people give for the indispensability of e-books boil down one: inconvenience.
People construct these impenetrable walls and fortresses of inconvenience, simply to justify their abandonment of principle.
If you have been reading for more than a few years, what did you do before ebooks came along? Most people who claim that they can't do without ebooks must have discovered reading only with the advent of ebooks and portable ebook readers.
RMS makes very valid and important points. We must reject the format in the name of freedom. Especially since the cost of doing so is trivial. Just an inconvenience.
emk
Keep your hardbacks
I have the Thirteenth Century on my Android Phone.
That computer room is way to quiet. You would hear the AC and all the buzzing electronics.
Yeah, not much in the 13th century... except the Magna Carta!
"Those that have been edited, of course", from an incredibly attractive "clerk".
I have a large personal library that my nephew thinks is useless. "Everything's on Wikipedia" he says with confidence. He's the same as Moonpie (?), "why read"?
I have many digital books as well, but always wonder how faithful is the conversion from print to digital.
lots of original books have drawings that later editions left out
This is exactly what they are doing now... Wtf is going on
Welcome to amazon
Everyone was on acid or valium in the 1970s.
We made it. We're here. All books are modernised. History is a bit old hat. We're better than that
THIS IS THE REASON WHY We all should have an independent server with 4 to 5 rendundant servers so that anything that goes in goes through our server before it goes into an ISP's server and anything that goes out goes through our server before going into an ISP's server by using a SPLITTER similar to the one used on the multi-raid 1 hard drive system of our computers and of our ASOM system and ASOP system. The result? Nothing is lost if TH-cam or Google or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter tries to do anything funny with our internet connection. IMPORTANTLY WE RUSSIANS HAVE THEIR BALLS IN A PAIR OF GIANT PLIERS BECAUSE WE HAVE VACCINATED THE INTERNET AND ALL COMPUTERS WITH OUR MIMIC PROGRAMMING WHICH IS OUR DEAD HAND CYBER WARFARE AGAINST ALL ISPs, HACKERS, GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE, THE WORKS! Because my technicians in the past has equipped my decades old computer with a multi-router/re-router I can practically send a computer signal from the middle of Russia and through an innocent American family's PC computer regardless whether they are using or not and only as long as it is turned on, and that same technology I can use to anonymously use any ISP's server facilities without them knowing it. As for your mirroring your content, have your own non-stop multi-raid 1 server system with an SCT hardwired programming, SCT stands for SCAN-COPY-TRANSFER programming. It scans a computers' contents such as websites, commentaries, e-mails, links, hyperlinks, THE WORKS and then copies it all like a Xerox photocopying machine and then transfers the DUPLICATED-COPIED DATA to an another hard drive inside a muti-raid 1 non-stop server.
Also use a snapshot program and/or a instamatic snapshot-screenshot program against deletion-censorship combined with with ASOM and ASOP system.
For a long time I have been silent on how I save all my comments and all the webpages, and websites and web searches history, and browsing history files and their contents and this is what one of our technicians did. They use an auto-save program to have EVERYTHIING automatically scanned, open up and copy the contents like a photocopying xerox machine, and transfer the entire data contents in chronologically order and have everything ID tagged with a title like the dewey-decimal catalog cabinet system. Imagine a dewey-decimal catalog cabinet that contains all the catalog cards that also has the sealed and safe super-microfilmed photo-chromic irreversible photo-sensitive glass wafer containing all of the contents of the books. Our system is based on that principle, the best of the old combined with the best of the new, and merged as one hybrid-merged in adjunct of each other systems. In my case, I requested my technician to have everything saved on "PRINT" using an ink jet printer, a laser printer, and a dot-matrix printer. The dot-matrix printer is something we have stockpiled on "A LOT!". The auto-save COM system is also use but we like the auto-save dot-matrix printer system best because all we have to do is separate them in accordance to their subject and title, and have everything placed inside a binder folder. So if one can see my office, I am surrounded by binders containing all of the printed out data contents of all websites, webpages, e-mails contents, favorites contents, documents contents, etc.
The only inconvenience with computer print outs is that you have to search them manually in your private library despite the fact you had have them properly titled, catalogued, and orderly arranged and organized based on the Dewey-Decimal System for fast searching and identification.
The problem with Americans in this age of computers is that they have been brainwashed by computer advertisements while not thinking critically about it's long term effects.
They-you have traded comprehension for convenience.
They-you have traded the exposure of experiencing intellectual assimilation for fast results.
They-you have traded intellectual synergistic inter-action for hasty accomplishments.
They-you have traded the accumulation of intellectual wisdom for aggrandizement among their peers.
They-you have traded certainty and security and historical referencing/cross-referencing from present to the past for instant access.
As far as computers are concerned, in the long run, they are just over-glorified calculators and catalogs, nothing more.
Sure I use computers, BUT AS A COMPLEMENTARY AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO WHAT I REALLY USE which is a vast personal ink-on-paper archival library and microfilm library bank, equipped with with a COM microfilm archiver-writer and dot-matrix printer and with a microfilm scanner-reprinter book making equipment.
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ON THE CRASH OF THE NASDAQ
Information Society:
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A BOOMERS DREAM.
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When Hard Books DisappearVertical GardensA Different Beauty For Space
[Translations: Japanese]
Hard books are on their way to extinction.
Biologists maintain a concept call a “type specimen.” Every species of living organism has many individuals of noticeable variety. There are millions of Robins in America, for instance, all of them each express the Robin-ness found in the type of bird we have named Turdus migratorius. But if we need to scientifically describe another bird as being “like a Robin” or maybe “just a Robin” which of those millions of Robins should we compare it to?
Biologists solve this problem by arbitrarily designating one found individual to be representative and archetypical of the entire species. It is the archetype, or the “type specimen,” of that form. There is nothing special about that chosen specimen; in fact that’s the whole idea: it should be typical. But once chosen this average specimen becomes the canonical example that is used to compare other forms. Every species in botany and zoology has a physical type specimen preserved in a museum somewhere.
Books and other media creations are now getting their type specimen archive. The same guy who has been backing up the internet (yes the entire web!), and is racing Google to scan all books into digital files, has recently become concerned about the lack of a physical archive for all these digitized books. That guy is Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive. Brewster noticed that Google and Amazon and other countries scanning books would cut non-rare books open to scan them, or toss them out after scanning. He felt this destruction was dangerous for the culture.
We are in a special moment that will not last beyond the end of this century: Paper books are plentiful. They are cheap and everywhere, from airports to drug stores to libraries to bookstores to the shelves of millions of homes. There has never been a better time to be a lover of paper books. But very rapidly the production of paper books will essentially cease, and the collections in homes will dwindle, and even local libraries will not be supported to house books - particularly popular titles. Rare books will collect in a few rare book libraries, and for the most part common paper books archives will become uncommon. It seems hard to believe now, but within a few generations, seeing a actual paper book will be as rare for most people as seeing an actual lion.
Brewster decided that he should keep a copy of every book they scan so that somewhere in the world there was at least one physical copy to represent the millions of digital copies. That safeguarded random book would become the type specimen of that work. If anyone ever wondered if the digital book’s text had become corrupted or altered, they could refer back to the physical type that was archived somewhere safe.
But where? The immediate answer is: in cardboard boxes, stacked five high on a pallet wrapped in plastic, stored 40,000 strong in a shipping container, inside a metal warehouse on a dead-end industrial street near the railroad tracks in Richmond California. In this nondescript and “nothing valuable here” building, Brewster hopes to house 10 million books - about the contents of a world-class university library. The containers are stacked two high and are plumbed to remain at 30% humidity. Together with their triple waterproofing (plastic, steel container, steel roof), they will remain dry even in short periods of neglect.
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But he is archiving more than just the paper books. Even digital versions are physical in some way. So the Internet Archive is also storing in these interior shipping containers the tapes of the previous versions of digital scans, and the hard discs of today’s scans, leaving room for the physical form of whatever media platform is next. There will be a next, Brewster says: “When they were making microfilm of books, they thought they would never have to rescan them. When they were being scanned at 300 dpi, they thought they would never have to scan them again. We know someday these books will be rescanned. They will be waiting here in boxes.”
The big idea that EVERY digital form ultimately rests in a physical form is a deep truth that needs to be understood more widely. From Brewster’s summary of the project:
As the Internet Archive has digitized collections and placed them on our computer disks, we have found that the digital versions have more and more in common with physical versions. The computer hard disks, while holding digital data, are still physical objects. As such we archive them as they retire after their 3-5 year lifetime. Similarly, we also archive microfilm, which was a previous generation’s access format. So hard drives are just another physical format that stores information. This connection showed us that physical archiving is still an important function in a digital era.
The books are not meant to be retrieved one by one, but as a collection, by the pallet full, say. But they are stored with the idea that they will be needed eventually. The specs of this multilayered system:
Books are cataloged, and have acid free paper inserts with information about the book and its location. Boxes store approximately 40 books with labeling on the outside. Pallets hold 24 boxes each. Modified 40′ shipping containers are used as secure and individually controllable environments of 50 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 30% relative humidity. Buildings contain shipping containers and environmental systems. Non-profit organizations own and protect the property and its contents. Buildings contain shipping containers and environmental systems.
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This past Sunday this long-term archive for paper books was opened to visitors. The current capacity is about half a million books. Many of the books were bought for almost nothing on the used book market, and others were collections of books donated by book lovers. The Archive is looking for more collections to scan and store. It costs about ten cents per page to track, catalog and scan a book. One advantage owning the books they scan is that it gives them a small edge in claiming the right of fair use for the digital copy they make. They try to have scans of only books they own.
A prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, forever. It still amazes me that after 20 years the only publicly available back up of the internet is the privately funded Internet Archive. The only broad archive of television and radio broadcasts is the same organization. They are now backing up the backups of books. Someday we’l realize the precocious wisdom of it all and Brewster Kahle will be seen as a hero.
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Don't you Americans have a hardwired O/S SCTTA program, ASOM program, ASOP program that "SNATCHES" any website or webpages, downloads it in a temporary-permanent external hard drive and archival magnetic tape and transfers it to a PERMANENT MICROFILM CASSETTE AND DOT-MATRIX PRINTED PRINT OUTS so that nothing is deleted? Most especially you must have YOUR OWN SERVER so that if GOOGLE or TH-cam or TWITTER or FACEBOOK or any corporate ISPs tries to delete or shadow ban or block you or steal your data by illegally saying you can not transfer your own data to an another ISP, then at least YOU ARE PROTECTED BY YOUR OWN ARCHIVAL SERVER WITH MICROFILMS OR DOT-MATRIX PRINTOUTS.
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I appreciate he's on an intellectual journey,but how could you be mean to HER!
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THE ONLY THING MEMORABLE ABOUT IT
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My own house is more like the National Library Of The Russian Federation and my neighbors in my village in Kazan jokingly called my house as The Little National Library Of Russia because it is more of a library than a house even though 80% of it is converted to a library. They say my own house is like that, more like a library than a house with wall to wall, floor to ceiling book shelves and book shelves in the middle of the rooms. And they're filled to the brim. From 1800 to 1900 books of all kinds, and from 1900 to 2016 books of all kinds, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, maps, magazines, booklets, mini-mags, paperbacks, hard bound books, blue prints and schematics, calendars, conversion tables and conversion formulas, textbooks, THE WORKS! And most important is the microfilm library with their redundant microfilm cassette tapes and readers and microfilm to reprinters and microfilm to computers, and back up computer data-information storage to microfilm writers, etc. No pests, no dust, practically cool and dry with carbon-dioxide extinguishers everywhere. And with a photocopier and microfilm scanner-writer for I always make it a habit to photocopy and microfilm everything on archival paper and archival silver halide microfilm. And my most favorite are the dot-matrix printers that is continuously printing everything that I do with my computer, even at this very moment. Noisy? Yes, but worth it! And I am an avid book collector-buyer too.
I keep on telling people never give up on hard INK-ON-PAPER PRINTED copies of everything under the Sun!
A book, once printed, can not be censored. I even have several mechanical typewriters that are built to last and has their own re-inkers so that their black ribbons won't run out of graphite-carbon. Old books are priceless and invaluable reference material as a foundation for checking and cross-checking, or referencing and cross referencing new data with old data, new information with old information, present edition to past editions over the years and decades and centuries SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW IF YOU ARE BEING LIED TO OR NOT! Books, when they become old, DO NOT BECOME OBSOLETE OR OUT OF DATE, THEY AUTOMATICALLY BECOME PRICELESS AND VALUABLE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF PRICELESS AND VALUABLE OLD INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN USE AS A COUNTER-CROSS REFERENCING INFORMATION MATERIAL TO COMPARE WITH YOUR NEW INFORMATION MATERIAL SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE "HISTORICAL CHANGES" FROM THE PRESENT AND GOING BACK TO THE PAST. And so that you will know that either you were being lied to or being undereducated by your own teachers.
I have been warning people for many decades of a DIGITAL DARK AGE TO BE FOLLOWED BY A DIGITAL TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP BY YOUR OWN ISPs and it became a reality in the form of shadow banning, unauthorized data scrubbing- sabotage, unauthorized surveillance by Big Brother, illegal-criminal acts of your information being sold by your own ISPs, etc and THE WORKS! That is why I keep telling people keep your old mechanical typewriters on hand for they are better than the electric typewriters and electronic typewriters. If they can send data through the power grid then they can also hack your computers through their electrical sockets!
In fact, in my own printed-book based library, I have several aisles of OLD American textbooks that can teach your young American students everything that they need to know and become geniuses in math and science. And these old American and European textbooks dates back to 1900. Fortunately too, in my younger years (I am 92 years old this year of 2018) I have them all microfilmed several times, at least 4 to 5 copies of each title and stored in my own microfilm library in an organized Dewey Decimal System. I also have the printed books and printed manuals used by teachers in teaching students going way back to 1900 and to 1800 and I have them all microfilmed several times so as to have 4 to 5 microfilm copies per title.
During the Cold War we have combined silver halide supermicrofilming with frame film and with self-developing Polaroid technologies because we know that magnetic tapes and conventional frame films can not last for hundreds of years and we have video-audio recordings of the present going way back to the past. In the 1980s you have video-audio vinyl records and players which you have abandon but we did not abandon that technology, we upgraded it by using the grooves to be video recorded on supermicrofilms by a precision photonic writer mounted on a piezo-ceramic vibrating writers. And all of the required program is hardwired on a TRANSISTORIZED (NO IC CHIP ALLOWED) printed circuit boards that can read the grooves and simultaneously convert it to both pictures and sounds. My technicians who are photronic specialists and several engineers who are photronic specialists (photronics is also known as optronics which is a shortened word for optical-electronics but the electronics are all ANALOG, NOT DIGITAL) has in the past late 70s and early 80s developed the equivalent of your Western VCR and DVD recorder-players for military purposes. If you ask, why we are avoiding IC chips as much as possible, then the answer to that is EMP that can fry all of your IC chip dependent world in seconds!
We all should have an independent server with 4 to 5 rendundant servers so that anything that goes in goes through our server before it goes into an ISP's server and anything that goes out goes through our server before going into an ISP's server by using a SPLITTER similar to the one used on the multi-raid 1 hard drive system of our computers and of our ASOM system and ASOP system. The result? Nothing is lost if TH-cam or Google or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter tries to do anything funny with our internet connection. IMPORTANTLY WE RUSSIANS HAVE THEIR BALLS IN A PAIR OF GIANT PLIERS BECAUSE WE HAVE VACCINATED THE INTERNET AND ALL COMPUTERS WITH OUR MIMIC PROGRAMMING WHICH IS OUR DEAD HAND CYBER WARFARE AGAINST ALL ISPs, HACKERS, GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE, THE WORKS!
Because my technicians in the past has equipped my decades old computer with a multi-router/re-router I can practically send a computer signal from the middle of Russia and through an innocent American family's PC computer regardless whether they are using or not and only as long as it is turned on, and that same technology I can use to anonymously use any ISP's server facilities without them knowing it. As for your mirroring your content, have your own non-stop multi-raid 1 server system with an SCT hardwired programming, SCT stands for SCAN-COPY-TRANSFER programming. It scans a computers' contents such as websites, commentaries, e-mails, links, hyperlinks, THE WORKS and then copies it all like a Xerox photocopying machine and then transfers the DUPLICATED-COPIED DATA to an another hard drive inside a multi-raid 1 non-stop server which is equipped with a an ASOM system and ASOP system. Expensive? Yes! But is it worth it? Yes! So that if something happens to the digital systems, then the analog systems is our emergency information supporting auxiliary systems.
It should be sold : A HDD & The Prayer - It shall work in 10, 20, 30 ... 50 years :-)