Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week agoWell, not to Europe. They’ve always been illegal here. I don’t know where they could even go.
Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week agoWell, not to Europe. They’ve always been illegal here. I don’t know where they could even go.
rickrolled767@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
They’re illegal in Europe? Could you elaborate a bit on that?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In practice, copyright would be the big problem. There is no Fair Use in Europe. There is no difference between what they do and Anna’s Archive or LibGen. As far as copyright people are concerned, this is just “theft” on a gigantic scale.
Then there’s the GDPR. As far as the EU is concerned, this is one huge human rights violation. The GDPR does allow for archives, but figuring out how the IA should operate would take some litigation. I doubt they would be allowed to provide the Wayback Machine.
rickrolled767@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
Gotcha. Thanks for explaining it. I’m in the US so I was really curious on what was different in the EU that would cause problems for them