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Oct 7, 2023 at 9:58am
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This is cool. As someone who is fairly new to Searching, this is very helpful.
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Oct 14, 2023 at 5:20pm
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Amazing work, though I have a question:


Then there’s the Internet Archive itself, this is a website absolutely filled with treasure and absolute garbage.


One could argue "one man's trash is another man's treasure". Can you give an example for what you consider "garbage"?
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yesterday at 12:29am
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Legally speaking, sharing copies of unavailable material you don’t own the rights to is illegal. Morally and realistically speaking, it doesn’t hurt anyone and most of the time the company that owns what you’re sharing won’t care.

That's the thing. You stole my words, sir. I couldn't have said it better.

As almost everyone would agree, current copyright law is a joke. Copyright needs to be relaxed significantly. But that is a distant pipe dream because corporations with thick wallets who want even thicker wallets stand in the way.

Also watch this video by Tom Scott:



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Amazing work, though I have a question:

Then there’s the Internet Archive itself, this is a website absolutely filled with treasure and absolute garbage.
One could argue "one man's trash is another man's treasure". Can you give an example for what you consider "garbage"?
A specific example? Not really. I know I've seen many instances where the IA is used as a file locker for random junk or stuff that does not need to be archived on that platform. For instance, there's tons of porn on there that is still widely available freely from their respective artists. Same thing goes for random audio recordings, anime and movies that are uploaded not to archive them but for piracy reasons, and etc. If you look just through the vague sections of videos and audio and what have you it's really hard to sift through the junk and stuff that's worth while, y'know?

Also happy you agree with the way copyright law is right now, it's a mess.
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