Subj : archive.org's legal problems
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Tue May 07 2024 17:04:32

In recent months the Internet Archive (archive.org) has been facing legal 
problems from trolls who do not accept archive.org's mission to archive 
everything on the Internet.  Archive.org is a very reputable project that aims 
to not have the various sites on the net be lost to time.  If archive.org goes 
down then all of the other archival sites go down aswell.  Archive.org is the 
primary collection of abandoned media bar none.  It is the pillar, standing 
strong, keeping the information from ceasing to exist in our minds and in our 
history.  If you can spare $20, or at least something, then send your donation 
on to the archive.org.  This is a time when they actually need this help and 
it can make or break the existence of a project that aims to save things from 
literally being lost to time, or forgotten, or even forgotten that it was 
forgotten.  If you live in a country that isn't as brutal as the one having 
the DMCA on their books you would do well to make a mirror of The Archive in a 
country with more freedoms.  Something out of the Western Internet, something 
without draconian restrictions... some place where the legal arm of the 
copyright police does not reach into.  I'm thinking of Seinfeld's "no soup for 
you" episode.  These things make a powerful nation look foolish, and thanks be 
to the Internet you can just host your files in some other nation that has 
common sense, following the principle of the law rather than the letter of the 
law.  That makes sense, being the world's copyright police does not.  And if 
you don't like the legal mess of some of the Western nations then just get a 
passport, seek a VISA in some second world country, and gain the right to do 
whatever you feel like doing in terms of the adoptive country's copyright 
privileges.  In a globalized world you have options of where you want to live 
and set up shop.  So exercize that privilege and find some place to live that 
isn't all crazy town.  After that happens don't forget projects like 
archive.org.  Keep them in mind and help them out, as from your new location 
you may enable them to preserve world history in peace.

With freedom in mind,
-warmfuzzy

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