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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20171207234453/https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides

Guides

Stop Unwanted Calls and Texts

December 5, 2017

Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the FCC plays a crucial role in helping consumers stop unwanted calls, text messages and faxes.

Cancellation, Rescheduling or Refusal of Radio and TV Programs

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Cable System Encryption

November 30, 2017

Background The Commission recently decided that cable operators with all-digital systems may encrypt their services. This will let cable operators...

Cable Signal Leakage

November 30, 2017

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Connect America Fund Phase II FAQS

November 30, 2017

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After Storms, Watch Out for Scams

November 30, 2017

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The Open Internet

November 21, 2017

An Open Internet means consumers can go where they want, when they want. This principle is often referred to as Net Neutrality. It means innovators...

Slamming: Switching Your Authorized Telephone Company Without Permission

November 17, 2017

"Slamming" is the illegal practice of switching a consumer's traditional wireline telephone company for local, local toll, or long distance service...

Digital Radio

November 17, 2017

Radio broadcasters around the country are now simultaneously broadcasting both traditional analog signals and digital signals that can be picked up...

Complaints About Broadcast Advertising

November 17, 2017

The FCC receives numerous complaints from consumers about broadcast advertising. These complaints concern a wide variety of issues, including: the...