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What’s the danger in uploading to archive.org?

• elric 6y ago
  Aside from the can of worms that is copyright infringement? There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org. Not uploading people's stuff to permanent, public archives seems like a good rule of thumb.
  • tashbarg 6y ago
    Isn't this just passing the URL to archive.org which then does the actual archiving? If it isn't already public (i.e., reachable by archive.org), it won't be afterwards?
    • elric 6y ago
      Something can be public today and not tomorrow. Something can be made public by accident. Something can be publically reachable (i.e. a private URL but one without a login) without the intention of being searchable.
  • notRobot 6y ago
    > There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org. I really wanna read this but can't find the thread, do you happen to have a link?