Or maybe The Internet Archive could obey the law. Google are similarly guilty of this - their empire is built on intellectual property, yet they only pay distan

Or maybe The Internet Archive could obey the law. Google are similarly guilty of this - their empire is built on intellectual property, yet they only pay distant lip service to others' intellectual property. It would be trivial to implement a system where every rightsholder can register their copyrights and trademarks and subsequently forbid the uploading of content that infringes those. It would be trivial to scan trusted publications for new movie releases and forbid uploading content with the names and pictures they contain unless it's done from the studio's trusted account. But no - today's robber barons Google & Facebook are content to let unprecedented thievery run rampant on their services and gorge themselves on profits, while the rightsholders and content creators lose billions of profit every year. The Internet is the worst thing to have happened to our shared culture.