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Re:The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness) by jacquesm on Thursday October 28, 2010 @07:06PM (#1845345)
> I don't consider the value of the stuff you've saved (as much as I've seen, certainly not an in depth study) to be that high that civil disobedience should be practised in order to preserve it.

And that's where we disagree. Talk to a researcher in 500 years or so to get the better reasons why compared to the ones that I can give to you today.

But what I would not give to have the nasa pages about the spaceshuttle flights that I helped put out on the net back.

Those are gone forever, I wished someone had broken copyright law to preserve them.

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Re:The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness) by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 28, 2010 @08:02PM (#1845500)
>And that's where we disagree.

I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the type of page preserved by the likes of archive.org.

>Those are gone forever, I wished someone had broken copyright law to preserve them.

Issue all your stuff PD and then people won't need to break the law to do what you appear to want them to do.

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