Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by gattilorenz on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:56PM
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IA can be painted in court as an “unwilling enabler” of something like Anna’s Archive, instead of a regular library
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by paradox460 on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:24PM
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If I go to the public library, check out a movie on disc, back it up, and share the back up file online, is my public library legally liable
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by californical on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:24AM
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Depends a bit probably if your local library has major lawsuits for operating in a very sketchy side of the legal gray area
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by account42 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:37AM
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Maybe your library shouldn't have made choices that put it at odds with the data preservation community then.
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by californical on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:11PM
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Strongly agree, but what does that have to do with the point I was making: that yes indeed they might be liable, and are different than a library?
The only people facing consequences are the license-holders. Online lending libraries aren't missing a copy now that AA archived it, and there's not really a substantial cost to the hosters in network bandwidth.
Am I missing something here? As a user I don't empathize with anyone but the archivers.