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Honest question: how do you propose a non profit online library ask every author for written permission, while also considering the legal interests of their publishers?
Sounds difficult, but not a justification for breaking copyright laws, or interfering with people's livelihoods without asking.
What if there was a feature to load the pages without images? I use IA a lot but I rarely need the media stuff, at least initially. Speaking for myself I’d be happy to get the page without images and then click to optionally get the images. (Lazy lazy loading)
I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
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Honest question: how do you propose a non profit online library ask every author for written permission, while also considering the legal interests of their publishers?
Sounds difficult, but not a justification for breaking copyright laws, or interfering with people's livelihoods without asking.
The wayback machine has been essential through COVID as many government just publish the numbers and data "of the day" and the only way to compare to the day before is to look at IA.
I donate to the Internet Archive (recurring). I just hope they stick to their core mission, and don't get sidetracked like Wikipedia has. They offer a valuable service and I believe will help historians in the future understand this point in the internet's life. PS - Don't forget to pick an Amazon Smile charity and use the Smile.Amazon sub-domain. Donated almost $20 to the EFF that way.
How has Wikipedia got sidetracked?
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> archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure Yes I save some dead sites that I think are critically important resources to tarballs that I'm storing separately in case the Wayback Machine disappears.
While that may work for your personal usecase, there is a significant issue around trust, if you were to share these tarballs with anyone else. I wouldn't trust you to give me originals in the same way I trust the wayback machine. So even if there are backups lying around here and there, their utility is decreased a lot.
Your stance is pretty extreme - please don't discourage people from making backups.
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While that may work for your personal usecase, there is a significant issue around trust, if you were to share these tarballs with anyone else. I wouldn't trust you to give me originals in the same way I trust the wayback machine. So even if there are backups lying around here and there, their utility is decreased a lot.
By your philosophy, just get off the internet. At some point you gotta trust HN, your keyboard driver, CPU firmware, motherboard, ISP, Google or whatever service you're using. I am not even mentioning your mailman and your amazon delivery driver. Your stance is pretty extreme - please don't discourage people from making backups.
im3w1l, HN, your keyboard driver, CPU, firmware, motherboard, ISP, Google
One of these things is not like the others.