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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