• @Intralexical
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    211 months ago

    Yes, of course. Likewise, archiving is an exception/limitation to copyright law where you are allowed to store and even redistribute content, but that falls apart quickly when you become a competitor to the original publisher.

    What I’m saying is that by using the Wayback Machine as a paywall-bypassing mirror, all that is accomplished is to shift the liability onto them. I like the Internet Archive, so I don’t think that’s the solution. (And frankly, I’m not really comfortable with helping people bypass the NYT’s paywall either, in this day and age of truth decay.)

    I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a factual news story that was reported on only by paywalled sources. Perhaps the Business Insider version of this story, which I don’t think is paywalled, or its licensed Yahoo News mirror, could have been used instead, possibly with a link to the NYT version in the comments?

    • Doug HollandOP
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      111 months ago

      Lemmy is a link-aggregation site, but tiny potatoes compared to bigger link-aggregators like Reddit and Twitter, and this page of bad-cop news is barely a tater tot even on Lemmy. Nobody’s sent a cease-and-desist letter to Reddit, let alone Lemmy, and I’ve been doing this for decades and never been blocked by the archival sites.

      Your worries are about hypotheticals that haven’t even been threatened. I’m goiing to worry about bad cops instead.

      • @Intralexical
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        111 months ago

        ??? Wow, hostile. You’re the one who brought up fear of copyright violation when I suggested including the content in the post itself, so IDK why suddenly you’re saying “Nobody’s sent a cease-and-desist letter to Reddit, let alone Lemmy”.

        IDGAF about Lemmy, relatively speaking.

        You’re abusing the Internet Archive, which is already under siege from publishers, and gets more important with every website that goes down or bad cop that tries to erase the past, is all.

        • Doug HollandOP
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          211 months ago

          I like your suggestion of seeking similar coverage from a different source, instead of the archive sites. That would be preferable, but would take serious time. Consider yourself invited to pitch in!

          Non-hostility verified by adding a smiley-face. :)