Re:An Archive of a Different Type
by PostOnce on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:28AM
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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.
Re:An Archive of a Different Type
by EamonnMR on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:38PM
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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.
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.