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Re:An Archive of a Different Type by EamonnMR on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:47PM (#24300610)
It's incredibly frustrating that a resource that holds so much unique content and history decided that the hill it was going to die on was content that is readily available elsewhere.
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Re:An Archive of a Different Type by PostOnce on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:28AM (#24301358)
The content wasn't "readily available".

People were either locked at home, the libraries were closed, or else disease-ridden.

Archive.org was providing knowledge in a time of emergency when people had no other means of access to knowledge, and people who may have been out of work due to a pandemic, and thus unable to afford to buy the stuff if it even was available via mail.

It wasn't some trivial lark.

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Re:An Archive of a Different Type by EamonnMR on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:38PM (#24356318)
I'm just not convinced that what they provided couldn'tve been provided just as well by proper pirate sites, or that they are more discoverable than pirate sites.
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