* IA's most important function (at least for me) is holding copies of the World Wide Web as it was. * Given an annually compounding 30% linkrot, 99.92% of all

* IA's most important function (at least for me) is holding copies of the World Wide Web as it was. * Given an annually compounding 30% linkrot, 99.92% of all the content ever published on the Internet is no longer available. * This has been litigated, see Field v. Google Inc., 412 F (2006), and held to be "fair use" due to safe harbor of Section 512(b) of the DMCA * This exemption does not apply to books, music, videos, or any of the other pirated material.