Actually, TPB completely ignored DMCA requests, so that's not really a good comparison at all. The same goes for other torrent sites, really - their abuse handl

Actually, TPB completely ignored DMCA requests, so that's not really a good comparison at all. The same goes for other torrent sites, really - their abuse handling policies really aren't anything like that of IA, and they attract a distinctly different audience. As for the legal point of view, I doubt anybody in this thread will be more qualified to discuss that than the legal team of the Internet Archive. They've been at it for a long time, and have had a number of legal cases about this already, including https://archive.org/about/dmca.php https://archive.org/about/dmca.php As for the moral point of view, I see absolutely no problem with IA doing what they do.