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>... but is it really? It might be, and it probably won’t be in 5 years whenever some copyright troll purchases the license and locks it away. Then 25 years fr
by intopieces 8y ago
>... but is it really?
It might be, and it probably won’t be in 5 years whenever some copyright troll purchases the license and locks it away. Then 25 years from now someone will come across this article and wish, in vain, that someone had saved this collection.
I don’t have any interest in boxing, but there’s a special place in my heart for amateur archivists. It makes me sad to think this work will eventually be lost to history because of shortsightedness.
Would love for the Internet Archive to digitize and hold on to them.
- rectang 8y agoTo me the article evokes the existential futility of trying to achieve anything everlasting. Living humans cannot carry the past history of all those gone before -- at best, there is a continuing process of loss and compression. From the article: > "Before he died, he told me: 'The collection is going on forever. It has to go on,'" How cruel.
- Aloha 8y agovery much agreed, destruction is the final step of creation.
- wozniacki 8y agoThen ought not we ask, are we contented with a selective reading and understanding of all those that have preceded us, especially those of small repute and those that had insignificant impact on that history? And following from that, the factors that contributed to that insignificance in the first place - things like scant media exposure, lack of coverage by mainstream outlets being just two of a whole slew of other factors we may never fully capture or fully grasp. I guess in the end we are posed with the question, are we okay with that "process of loss and compression."