Re:U.K. Parties Prepare for 2015 by Erasing Web Histories
by mtgx on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @04:45AM
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I'm very disappointed in how archive.org handled this. I mean, they just delete all of their archives as soon as the source blocks archive.org or requests they delete its archives on them? Then what's the point of it all?!
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Re:U.K. Parties Prepare for 2015 by Erasing Web Histories
by pavlov on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @05:36AM
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What do you expect them to do? It's copyrighted material. They can't retain a copy if the author doesn't want them to.
Re:U.K. Parties Prepare for 2015 by Erasing Web Histories
by sdoering on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @06:05AM
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Well and that is the problem with digital goods. In "the old days" (TM) it was, that libraries and library-archives had papers and reporting on these speeches and oftentimes even manuscripts of speeches archived.
I would have loved to see a political party, or a newspaper request libraries to delete their copies.
So, what is a digital archive other, then a library, our repository of shared human historic-source-files? Why do we make it that easy for anyone, to destroy things, that might be of interest to future historians/generations?
I strongly believe, that our day and age will be one of the least known to future generations, as so much of the digital artifacts will be lost without the smallest possibility, to recover any artifact of it.
And yes, it is copyrighted material, but was copyright ever conceived as a tool for history-mingling or censorship?
Re:U.K. Parties Prepare for 2015 by Erasing Web Histories
by dingaling on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:02AM
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But the author hasn't expressed that sentiment to the Internet Archive; they've just requested that automated spiders no longer follow those links on their site.
As with the original poster, I'm uncertain as to why IA has decided this means 'purge all copies'.