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Everything the Internet Archive does is legally sketchy. The wayback machine making copies of web sites available without a prior agreement with the copyright o
by mcguire 6y ago
Everything the Internet Archive does is legally sketchy. The wayback machine making copies of web sites available without a prior agreement with the copyright owners? Their game and video archives?
Edit: I get it, it's an unpopular opinion. But as far as I can see, it's true: IA operates on a very broad definition of fair use that would be difficult to support legally. You can't have it both ways.
I just donated $100 to IA and refrained from making a $200 order for new books.
- duxup 6y agoI think web scraping has been trending towards being established as more "legal" as time goes on.
- tzs 6y agoIt has, in the sense that it trending toward web scraping itself is not per se illegal, even if the site has terms of service that says you won't do it. That's orthogonal to the question of whether or not in any particular case it is copyright infringement.