I'm with you, internet archive is a great resource (a resource I've personally donated money to because they do great work), but they're gonna get their shit packed in, and it's their own fault.
The problem is that they're the biggest piracy site on planet earth. You can get most movies, many books (not through their library programs), you can download packs containing every single game for virtually every game console they had ever existed, and so much more. If you had a magical memory stick that contained the entirety of the internet archive, you could have a full and happy life filled with new media every single day, because there's that much stuff on there. It's bigger than megaupload in it's heydey.
They should have kept to their core mission, acting as a legal online library and internet archive, perhaps host archives of confirmed public domain files. Instead they've really threatened their mission by playing fast and loose with the rules to the extent that their end is inevitable now, and it'll be a massive loss for the whole internet.
The problem is that they're the biggest piracy site on planet earth. You can get most movies, many books (not through their library programs), you can download packs containing every single game for virtually every game console they had ever existed, and so much more. If you had a magical memory stick that contained the entirety of the internet archive, you could have a full and happy life filled with new media every single day, because there's that much stuff on there. It's bigger than megaupload in it's heydey.
They should have kept to their core mission, acting as a legal online library and internet archive, perhaps host archives of confirmed public domain files. Instead they've really threatened their mission by playing fast and loose with the rules to the extent that their end is inevitable now, and it'll be a massive loss for the whole internet.
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