Comment on We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?
thejml@lemm.ee 1 day agoA local copy on a single person’s storage that isn’t available for future researchers, isn’t exactly Meeting the requirements of this article.
I have a copy of slashdot when they turned it pin for April fools day. Does anyone know that? No. Could someone find it if they wanted to read it? No. Is that helpful for preservation? No. To be helpful I’d have to make it available and searchable. You know what that does? Makes it so it can be DCMA’d.
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 1 day ago
They can always make a torrent of it and share it like that if they are in a country with barelly any dmca laws.
T156@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Big “if” though, and that would be contingent on the fact that the data is desirable enough that other people are willing and able to host it long-term, even before being able to find a country like that, and set up a torrent. I’ve a few torrents that are dead now, for example, because people weren’t that interested in keeping a copy of what they pointed to/the tracker no longer works.
You’d still need to share the torrent to spread it anyhow, and that runs into the DMCA issue all over again. The pirate bay only hosted torrents and magnet links, but it still got shut down for piracy, way back when. “facilitating pervasive online infringement” is something that can get you shut down, as Limewire found out.