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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.)

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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.
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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.

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