Infoanarchy.org is dead

[method77]

The news page is dead and only the wiki stays. One of the first, good p2p sites is gone.

This was posted yesterday:

"In case we still have some readers left:

infoAnarchy.org was launched in August 2000 as an alternative news source about file sharing and copyright issues. My goal was to create a site that does not only look at the issues from the point of view of "getting free stuff", but also tries to address the underlying philosophical, political and economic questions; a place where intelligent discussions on these topics can thrive. I've personally posted almost 500 stories, and others have submitted hundreds more.

But under this definition, infoAnarchy is long dead. Sure, there may be a couple of news stories a month that make it worth putting the RSS feed into your aggregator (when it works), but there are other places which provide intelligent commentary on copyright (e.g. Copyfight) or news about file sharing (e.g. Slyck.com). Few people dare to hold a strict anti-copyright philosophy as this site does, but I don't think that is enough to justify its continued existence.

To make matters worse, our software is outdated and heavily customized. Spammers have added hundred of spam comments to old and new stories, and there's no easy way to clean them up. I don't like to see infoAnarchy being used as a relay for search engine spam, so I'd rather close down the site.

But wait a minute - we still have the wiki which actually has an active community and quite a lot of useful content. So here's my proposal:

infoAnarchy.org, the weblog, will be discontinued.

I will try to extract and salvage as much of the old story content as possible for archiving purposes.

The wiki will reside at infoanarchy.org.

For the wiki, I would install the latest patches and anti-spam tools. I would also try to copy the old story content over to the wiki. I think there's definitely room for a decent public domain knowledge base that takes a clear anticopyright stance.

Using a wiki doesn't mean we can't have news content anymore, as Wikinews demonstrates. But the focus will probably be on building a knowledge base.

So, if you have any comments or objections, speak up now. Otherwise this process may begin within the next few weeks."

http://www.infoanarchy.org/

[eclectica]

It's been having trouble for months now. And the comments to it just affirmed what he said, that the software is outdated and the site is being used by spammers.

Edited May 19, 2006 by eclectica