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Originally Posted by barryem
During non-Corona virus times Archive.org is NOT a pirate site. Barry
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Anyone can make an account at IA and start uploading whatever he or she sees fit. Been so all the time I've been using it. Some years ago I tried to point their administrators to a couple of files, but got an answer along the line of "… we don't interfere with user uploads …"
If you wan't a small sample, try this search on IA:
Code:
mediatype:Texts AND title:(EMB)
I very much doubt that these are out of copyright anywhere in the world - or "community texts".
In fact, IA don't really care - and if the uploaded materials are non-english, they probably wouldn't be able to find out, even if they did. (Heck, all the arabian thingies masquerading as "danish text" could be terror blueprints for all I know …)
Anyway, in my book that makes IA a pirate site/file sharing service - corona or no corona. (Or just a ginormous pile of uncurated junk.)
Regards,
Kim