A blog post says the attack has gone on intermittently for three days, making access to the archives inconsistent. However, founder Brewster Kahle says patrons should worry more about lawsuits from book publishers and the recording industry that “are trying to destroy this library entirely and hobble all libraries everywhere.”
While the issue seems fixed today, Reddit users reported that and other problems, like videos that couldn’t be unmuted, in a thread spotted by 9to5Google. The solution was apparently disabling ad blockers. We saw the same behavior at The Verge.
It’s not clear if this was related to YouTube’s ongoing crackdown on ad blockers, or problems with the ad blockers themselves.
The State Assembly has passed a bipartisan bill with zero votes against it. It has to pass the senate and governor next.
Louisiana passed its law in January, forcing Pornhub to scan government IDs. Pornhub told Gizmodo that traffic fell 80 percent in the state — claiming that seekers “migrated to darker corners of the internet that don’t ask users to verify age.”
