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I would be very interested in reading more about this. Do you plan on publishing something based on your research? Both what.cd and oink were amazing communiti

• nvarsj 6y ago
  It's just my personal interest. I could potentially put my own research up somewhere, but it would be something fairly casual at this point. I just don't see it discussed very much, despite the ramifications for long term preservation of cultural art. There is so much music that simply doesn't exist in any library in the world. Yet it was on what.cd. How does society determine fair use? It seems to me like a clear cut case of it for archival purposes. I wonder if what.cd maintainers would have had any real legal basis as a archiver if they had gone to court. Also, libraries are poorly resourced, and if they are the only exception allowed for archiving, how do you scale archival? It seems like if we as a society don't do something about it, then so much will be lost. It seems like the what.cd model actually worked, and I wonder if it could be replicated for other types of media in a legal sense. Like non-profit crowdsourced archival websites, something akin to Wikipedia but for digital media.