Comment on Internet archive is library of alexandria of our time
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months agoAre we talking about the merits of the Internet Archive as a library or whether or not piracy matters? If you conflate the two, then IA is piracy and they will lose.
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah sorry, I may have misunderstood you, I thought you were suggesting if the content was on IA people would pirate the content from there and destroy the film industry.
I pointed out that the focus is archival and not making it easy to pirate stuff, and that there already exists easier ways to do that. Therefore it wouldn’t change anything that’s not happening already except preserving human culture.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Another commentator mentioned allowing uploading but not downloading might be the solution. If the work became orphaned or anything it could be opened up for download.