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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by monoch on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:51AM (#16966234)
You are breaking the social contract of copyright when trying to use it as a tool of censorship. The whole underlying rationale for modern copyright was spelled out in the first country to adopt it:

>To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

We, the people, trade our natural right of copying and selling anything we see for the benefit of increased dissemination of art and science.

Your integrity is kept perfectly pristine if your work only stays in your draw. The second you publish your work it is no longer yours.

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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by sgwilliams on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:23AM (#16966813)
What social contract? Technically, archive.org is in violation of copyright. It does not matter if robots.txt allows it or not. Pointing people to "content" like a search engine is fine. Displaying "content" on another website is not.

Even worse is nyud.net, which essentially steals credit.

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