More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued

Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by ta3216 on Monday October 01, 2018 @08:26PM (#18117909)

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a noise? If IA is storing copyrighted (noarchive) content but not displaying it, does that make it acceptable?

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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by Benjamin_Dobell on Monday October 01, 2018 @09:10PM (#18118081)

Yes, because copyright only lasts for a finite duration. In 100+ years when the original right-holders have disappeared, or when copyright expires and the original right-holders have no incentive to keep the originals; IA archive and similar archiving efforts will be able to make their copies available as a matter of historical importance.

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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by pixelpoet on Monday October 01, 2018 @08:55PM (#18118013)

Yes, because then it's saved. One day we'll have a little memory stick that contains the collected and organised works of mankind (all movies, all music, all websites, digitised books, ...) and it'll be thanks to the archivists.

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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by testvox on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:13AM (#18122412)

Yes at least in the United State copyright law has exemptions for archival purposes. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/dmca/section108

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