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Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by s9df898r32h on Thursday February 29, 2024 @09:25PM (#39557839)
https://archive.is/uS25u

When will HN automate the process to bypass paywalls since they require posted links to have a way for the paywall to be bypassed? You could phrase in an archival kind of way to avoid possible legal issues if that's the problem...

Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by sdwr on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:37PM (#39558274)
Probably never, the point is that they aren't getting around paywalls, it's users that they aren't necessarily aware of or responsible for. Plausible deniability goes a long way.
Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by s9df898r32h on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:54AM (#39558960)
in other words, "no cojones"
Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by joeybiden on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:28AM (#39559776)
I don't always strut my testicles, but when I do it's on a brand new throwaway.
Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by neilv on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:42PM (#39558305)
Maybe because a tech industry forum routinely circumventing copyright protection paywalls in a "grassroots" way is in questionable taste, and making it official would arguably be worse?

(Incidentally, someday a piracy site like that could serve up a browser zero-day, and pwn a large percentage of US tech companies. Without ever having needed to go to the trouble to develop their own content that would attract such a large audience of tech workers on work machines.)

Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by s9df898r32h on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:56AM (#39558969)
Are you saying that web archive services are breaking copyright law? I would say it's fair use seeing how ephemeral the content is. It's a myth that Internet content last forever.
Re:Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says by neilv on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:40AM (#39559197)
AFAIK, archive.org is mainly used as a legitimate archive service.

These other archive.* services seem to be used mainly for piracy. I don't know whether that's the intent, but that's the only use of them I recall seeing.

I think conflating the two categories of services might put archive.org at risk.