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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by afiori on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:56AM (#21014776)
There is an argument to be made that archival and distribution are two different things.

There are justifiable cases where you might want to remove something from the public internet. Some problems of p2p distributed proposals is that the only way to take down a single bit is to dismantle the entire network.

In this sense a federated system is objectively better.

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by OrgNet on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:28PM (#21022498)
> There is an argument to be made that archival and distribution are two different things.

of course download and upload are 2 different things...

which is why Torrent users often get emails about their download activities...

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by afiori on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:36AM (#21025125)
This meaning that a closed archive is still a valuable archive.

(For torrents I believe that there is (in many jurisdictions) a presumption that if you are downloading torrents then you are automatically guilty of distributions; similarly how in many places being drunk in a turned off car can be sufficient for a DUI)

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