p2pnet.net News:- Internet Archives’ one gigabit Net connection was pounded by a US ’Get Out and Vote’ video featuring Eminem’s 5:45 minute MOSH, produced by the Guerrilla News Network.

The Internet Archive is an amazing, ever-enlarging digital library of Net sites and “other cultural artifacts in digital form”.

It offers free access to anyone who wants to use it and is great for finding stuff you thought had disappeared for ever.

“We are serving more around 2 videos each second at this point (that is about 500Mbits/sec between the US and the EU archives),” said the site’s brewster.

“GNN.tv has taken up the Archive on its Home of the Commons offer. Our offer is for material that broadly defined belongs in a library, and that is free to share (say by using creative commons licenses).”

The goal of the production was to inspire young people to vote, “because they too often disregard it as a powerless exercise,” says GNN.

“To show them that political decisions do impact their daily lives and that voting is the most powerful act we all have to voice our opinion and effect change. And finally, to educate and reiterate the point that whether or not people want to accept it, there are forces in play that attempt to suppress the youth and minority vote.”

Internet Archive told p2pnet the site is still experiencing large volumes of traffic today - THE day – when Americans will learn if George W. Bush or John Kerry will be calling the shots for the next few years.

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See:-

MOSH – Eminem music video stretches the Archive, Internet Archive, October 27, 2004
political decisions – Eminem’s Mosh

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