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I really don't understand how they can be fine with so much illegal content hosted on the site. Ex: https://archive.org/details/JohnMayerMusic https://archive.
by benchmark6 12y ago
I really don't understand how they can be fine with so much illegal content hosted on the site.
Ex: https://archive.org/details/JohnMayerMusic https://archive.org/details/JohnMayerMusic
This is being featured on the homepage! No way this is in the public domain.
- ghaff 12y agoDid you read the detailed Rights section on the home page?
- benchmark6 12y agoOf course not, do most people? What are you referring to, that they will take things down only when a complaint is filed? That doesn't really speak to the quality of the archive that it's there in the first place.
- ghaff 12y agoIt's pretty hard to miss. On the link you provided, it's a great big section right below the top one which explains which John Mayer recordings are not allowed on archive.org and which are. More broadly, archive.org does operate in a legally gray area. But by trying to be a comprehensive archive but providing straightforward mechanisms for rights holders to opt out (including retroactively)--and by being a non-profit that doesn't run advertising--they seem to strike a reasonable balance for most people.
- benchmark6 12y agoI see, FYI this notice is nowhere in the new beta site. I see it in the original.
- Squarel 12y agoPerhaps most people do not, but one would expect that those making assumptions about the legality, or lack of, of the content would have a look
- joepie91_ 12y ago> That doesn't really speak to the quality of the archive that it's there in the first place. The quality of the archive? Not archiving something because of copyright is what negatively affects the quality of an archive.