Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups

Post by ImprobableTruth » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

orev wrote: post #24

FrostKiwi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Public data is... public. No one should be stopped from saving a public page and nothing should stop Internet Archive, be it robot or human. There is if course a need for removal of archived content infringing on someone's rights, whatever that might be, but "archive with consent" will fail for the goal of preserving culture. I think it's worrying that some online newspapers enacted archive blockers or IA needing DMC…

Content posted on a web site is NOT “public” (domain), it is (in the US) automatically copyrighted to the author, unless they specifically waive those rights. Just because you can see it through a browser doesn’t in any way mean you can make it yours and do what you want with it.

Post by symlinkk » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

rectang wrote: post #10

kodah wrote: post #3

Personally, I think eternally archiving everything and infinitely available public data has been not-so-great. If this was an "archive with consent" sort of system, then sure. My response may be better summarized as, "Does IA support robots.txt, and if not why?"

Throughout human history, records have been forgotten, rewritten, changed, mutated, degraded, eroded away to nothingness. "The internet is forever" has always struck me as inhumane. Make a mistake or expose a weakness on the internet and it will always accompany you. It turns out that the internet is not always forever. I find that comforting.

Post by FrostKiwi » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

orev wrote: post #24

FrostKiwi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Public data is... public. No one should be stopped from saving a public page and nothing should stop Internet Archive, be it robot or human. There is if course a need for removal of archived content infringing on someone's rights, whatever that might be, but "archive with consent" will fail for the goal of preserving culture. I think it's worrying that some online newspapers enacted archive blockers or IA needing DMC…

Content posted on a web site is NOT “public” (domain), it is (in the US) automatically copyrighted to the author, unless they specifically waive those rights. Just because you can see it through a browser doesn’t in any way mean you can make it yours and do what you want with it.

Post by ignitionmonkey » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

Ericson2314 wrote: post #13

simonw wrote: post #9

The feature I most want from the Internet Archive is the ability to donate them an old domain name and enough cash to renew it for the next hundred years such that they can keep an archived version of a site available (without breaking any incoming links) for a very long time. They would also need to be able to handle legal administration costs of things like DMCA take-down notices, but I assume they already have to…

A far cheaper solution is a browser extension that looks up DNS differently based on the age of a the link. It wouldn't be hard to maintain a hand-crafted database of when domains are reused for something completely different, or even when the same conceptual website has breakages, and use that to choose between Internet Archive or live web accordingly. When one is browsing from an internet archive page, the date is…

Post by toomuchtodo » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 6:03 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #9

The feature I most want from the Internet Archive is the ability to donate them an old domain name and enough cash to renew it for the next hundred years such that they can keep an archived version of a site available (without breaking any incoming links) for a very long time. They would also need to be able to handle legal administration costs of things like DMCA take-down notices, but I assume they already have to…