Put it on the Internet Archive and let the future discover it.

I went down an IA hole a month or so ago, and discovered someone uploading random Jaz + Zip drives images, that appeared to be backups from random businesses and people in the late 1990s There were diary entries, letters to a lawyer about divorce, business accounting data, invoices, and period-era porn, that if i were to guess, was organized to be offered on BBSes. tl;dr: encrypt that data at rest, you never know where it will end up.

honestly, for stuff that old i kinda like the idea of seeding it anyway... i know that is a naïve PoV in the modern era, but i kinda miss the days of the internet being innocent enough that you got a real slice of someone's life sometimes.

I have mixed feelings about that stuff (which I've seen there too). There's historic value in it and I think it should be preserved. It also feels a bit icky and wrong for it to be publicly available so soon after its creation.

IA accepts and follows takedown requests from almost anybody about almost anything.

Certainly, but many don't bother to check, let alone file for removal.

Wow does it? I've seen some stuff there that is a definite target for takedown that seems to have been untouched for a while.

They go for security through obscurity.

I suppose you can distribute YouTube videos the same you distribute Linux ISOs.

Seed it. That is how you share it.

... and risk getting expensive nastygrams from lawyers? Oh hell no

Just use a seedbox or vpn.

They are connected to your payment details and unless you have good opsec, your IP is in logs

Fear mongering

> There is no way to legally share it, so we take it with us in our graves.

I think about this. How can we give back interesting stuff we've archived over the years? Or release it on death?

I feel I should either start planning and sharing now, or risk passing on short notice with no way to way to give anything back, taking my data to the grave.

I just hope someone in 2100 will want to see my meme archive.

> Cooyright is just too long and too unreliable. What we need at least is exemptions from Copyright for archivists, otherwise a lot of stuff will simply be lost in the coming decades.

What we need is compulsory licensing and a more reasonable timeframe to enter the public domain.