Antique software is often preserved better on pirate websites than through official channels. Earlier this week I was setting up an iPod Touch 2G for a friend,

Antique software is often preserved better on pirate websites than through official channels. Earlier this week I was setting up an iPod Touch 2G for a friend, maximum iOS 4.2.1, made in 2008. I wanted to install Springtomize, a paid tweak. The Cydia store has shut down, so there's no way to legally buy it. The pirate sites were no longer hosting such an old version. In the end I emailed the developer, and he was super excited and encouraged that someone is still using his code! He sent me the deb file for free, which installed perfectly of course. He's now working for Apple as a security researcher. I'm glad that the Internet Archive tries hard to allow people to upload antique data, and endures the DMCA troubles that come with that. Hopefully WinWorldPC will prevail against Adobe in this case too; and I wonder whether the EFF can help.