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[ARSCLIST] Another internet archive (fwd)
FYI
I love the part about their blocking access to those with US registered
IPs.
Karl
European Archive Puts Holdings on the Web
Associated Press
September 28, 2006
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The European Archive Foundation said
Thursday it has launched its massive digital library of free music and
film.
The nonprofit organization collaborates with national libraries and
other organizations to make non-copyrighted, or free-use material
available to the public.
On line now is an extensive database of live musical performances,
classical music, early British film and a snapshot of the entire Italian
Internet domain.
European Archive spokesman Julien Masanes said the European Archive has
stored about 10 percent of the Internet Archive's material, and the two
institutions will eventually act as backups for each other's records in
case of disaster.
``When you think of the Library of Alexandria burning, we don't want
that to happen again,'' he told reporters at the launch at the Cross
Media technology conference in Amsterdam.
The archive is inspired by the parallel San Francisco-based Internet
Archive, which has been taking snapshots of the Web and gathering
similar material since 1996.
The European Archive will block information requests from Internet users
whose IP addresses are registered in the United States, due to differing
copyright laws, he said.
The database already contains 250,000 gigabytes of information and
expects to expand its holdings quickly, he said.
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On the Net:
www.europarchive.org
www.archive.org
Copyright (c) 2006 The Associated Press