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Late 2021, I stopped uploading content to the Internet Archive, because they started blocking my uploads in an indeterministic way. This was most likely by the means of an automated spam-preventing mechanism. However, I sent them an email asking about this, and fortunately they replied (this used to be not always the case).

Thank you for thinking of the Internet Archive to preserve and share materials you upload.

While we strive to preserve materials that are at risk of being lost we do not want to mirror items that are online without actual evidence that their removal is imminent.

I'm seeing that most of what you have uploaded is from youtube and in a random check are still live on youtube.

To that end we ask that if you believe online materials are at risk and you wish to preserve them if they are removed please keep a copy locally on your own drives. If the items are removed or deleted from the site you are then welcome to upload them. Please include evidence that they were online but have been removed.

Additionally, if you are concerned about materials status we'd suggest discussing mirroring it with the owner of the materials and request that the owner talk with us.

Uploading them prior to that may result in their removal from archive.org and your account being locked.

I admit that most of my uploads were YouTube videos, however far not all, and the blocking of my uploads was not specific to YouTube videos, but also to web archives and magazines, to say some specific examples. Therefore I found it better not to – and honestly I didn't really see the point, especially if they don't respond to 2 of my 3 emails, in – arguing with IA staff, to try include evidence that they were online but have been removed, nor to try convincing them that online materials are at risk while I've been continously experiencing this risk since 2014 when I started web archiving (inspired by some crazy dudes who call themselves ArchiveTeam), and I can point at quite a few online materials of which a sole copy, probably on Earth, exists due to the fact that I uploaded them to the Internet Archive back then when I was poor enough that I couldn't afford to keep a copy locally on my own drives, which is still the case to some extent.

It might sound as if I were angry with the Internet Archive, however this is not really the case. I can actually be grateful – and I'm not saying this with cynicism – for them to host the 6,666 public (and 60,422 total) uploads under the @bzc6p account, and additionally a few thousands of other items under the @archiveteam_hungary account also administered by me.

Either way, I decided to stop uploading content to the Internet Archive – those few hundred dollars of my donations far don't offset storing and serving the tens of terabytes of data. I will have to find other parties that can host copies of content, often not available anywhere else any more, archived by me, more recently under the ArchiveTeam Hungary banner (I'm yet to receive a trademark infringement lawsuit for this). Hopefully the NSZL Web Archive will be so kind to help me with this – I'll get in touch with my contact there later this year (2023), once I've completed the census of all my archives on that pile of hard disks.

The whole point of this page follows now: you'll come across the term TVCS when referencing archives of some Hungarian websites. It leads to this article, and shall stand for: Timothy Vichra's Cold Storage. This means that I keep a copy, and I'll try to find others who would host other copies (at least one), until the Internet Archive eventually accepts me and my archives back. Which, honestly (and again without cynicism) I don't pose as a requirement whatsoever – I sincerely understand that IA just cannot hold all content, or even a substantial amount of content, of all nations around the globe; it's a big enough challenge for them to host English content alone.

And we still cannot be grateful enough for this quarter-century mission already, so I appreciate we have not any thing to demand for or complain about.

I would like to again thank to the Internet Archive for helping preserving Hungarian culture and history, as it appeared on the internet, between 2014 and 2021, and beyond.