Hey -- I agree completely on its utility! I love the site myself! But let's not pretend that there aren't some major copyright questions with mirroring the content of the entire internet and making it available to everyone who wants it.
FF
On 12/30/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Some sites get taken down because people fail to pay their fees or simply because they break. In such cases it's good to have a independant place be a back up.
Mgm
On 12/30/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
Technically they are, of course, doing just that (and even worse at
times --
one can often use the Wayback Machine to get free access to articles
which
were posted by magazines and newspapers free for a limited amount of
time
and then turned into paying-archival links). They even have a little bit about it on their FAQ page saying they'll happily remove things which
people
consider IP violations. Personally I think they are just fortunate that
most
people don't know about them and it takes some rooting around to get
content
out of them.
Don't get me wrong -- I think it's a wonderful service and an amazing
tool.
But let's not claim that there isn't a major copyright issue with
keeping
full-site archives of other people's content with the happy intent of
making
it available even if the site itself has been taken down or turned into
a
pay-for-content site. If its capabilities became well-known (and perhaps
if
its servers weren't perpetually down!) they'd be served up DMCA takedown requests every day, I reckon.
FF
On 12/29/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au: The takedown provisions of the DMCA are a matter of great concern, but a DMCA notice when someone is pretty damned clearly *ripping off your stuff* is IMO quite morally sound.
Better send a DMCA notice to Internet Archive too, as they're "clearly *ripping off your stuff*" at
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~rfernand/index2.html
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