Fact Over Fiction Dept.: the truth about BitTorrent and piracy. Knowledge Preservation Dept.: artists whose work enters the public domain in 2013. The Final Frontier Dept.: open-sourcing space with Copenhagen Suborbitals. The Visible Web Dept.: a Big Internet Museum. Not open during Brazilian Carnival. The End of the World Dept.: the New Math of End Times. A Message from Us Dept.: What…

It’s that time of the year (y’know, when you throw money at 501c3s to reduce your tax burden). Internet Archive has a generous donor pledging 3x whatever people donate until 12/31, so donating $1 turns into $4 of storage space. IA is kind of a big deal, and is also constantly in need of more…

Well, does it? We hear this question all the time. We hear we’ve killed film, the radio star, and the content industry. We hear we’re the web’s dark matter, and the Internet’s seedy underbelly. We are not. We are scientists, engineers, developers and designers committed to building a better Internet. We are photographers, musicians, writers…

Next year, you’ll see some amazing browser applications based on BitTorrent. Want to know what we’re working on? Well, we can’t give it away yet. But we can introduce you to one of the guys behind web initiatives. Meet Ben Allen. From working in an art gallery to fixing up old motorcycles, Ben found his…

2012’s coming to a close. While we were able to catch some of our favorite artists on tour (Death Grips! Willis Earl Beal!), alas, we couldn’t see them all. Today, we’re counting down the top wish-we-were-there shows of the year. And we’re making them available to you all, courtesy of the Internet Archive. Read on for…