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Protesting copyright and enabling pirate-like access to materials is orthogonal to archiving the world's data and recording our history. Internet Archive shoul
by echelon 2y ago
Protesting copyright and enabling pirate-like access to materials is orthogonal to archiving the world's data and recording our history.
Internet Archive should focus on its mission of archival. Let other groups figure out copyright.
By taking on both tasks, IA risks everything and could stumble in its goal to be an archivist platform. We need an entity dedicated to recording history. IA is that. They're just biting off way too much to chew and making powerful enemies along the way.
- withinboredom 2y agoAnd what, we are just supposed to trust that they're actually archiving these things instead of relaxing on a beach somewhere pretending they are? If they were to only focus on archiving, nobody would know if anything has actually been archived for nearly 100 years; after we are all dead. By making the archive public, sure, we have a bit of a "piracy" issue. However, we can also verify they are actually archiving the things they say they are, point out mistakes, and ask them to remove things from the archive.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]