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People sometimes make copies of things they find interesting, but those copies are rarely accessible to the public. It can be pretty hard to get your hands on
by ivank 12y ago
People sometimes make copies of things they find interesting, but those copies are rarely accessible to the public. It can be pretty hard to get your hands on something after it disappears from the web. For example, forums.truecrypt.org went down three days ago, it's of interest to some people, and you're going to have a hell of a time finding some guy who happened to launch HTTrack on it before it went down.
- mantrax5 12y agoValid points, but you need some strategy for pruning the archive. We can't just keep everything forever. First it was text files, then html files, then html files with images, and now videos. Without pruning, the task of archive.org will become impossible, so the question of what's important and what isn't will have to be decided at some point.