> If you’ve ever researched anything online, you’ve probably used the Internet Archive (IA).
Wow, pretentious much. The Wayback machine is an interesting passing curiosity that with great luck sometimes saves a webpage that isn't completely broken. The average person has never heard of its existence. Sure it's fun looking at how web pages used to look like and laugh at terrible designs but it's not exactly part of anyone's real workflow and surely violates right to delete and a bunch of other copyright laws.
You've stolen and rehosted the world's content and now you're surprised people are suing you? Do these people hear themselves? Did they not see pirating sites being fought tooth and nail in the past decades? I'm frankly surprised that the FBI hasn't sized their domains years ago.
How is that pretentious? It has so much truth to it. The attention span of our information stewards (large corporations, large universities) is so small that within 10 years you will have trouble finding information they once deemed critical and published.
I've used IA to research things I would not have been able to any other way, the information is _no where_ else!
* Finding missing YouTube videos from playlists. It's usually enough to get the title as YouTube doesnt care to show you the title of what's been deleted, privated, etc.
* A large university deleted all their "website builder" pages including a lot of research and news about certain projects. I used IA to find information on a building I bought from them.
* Looking at the origins/roots of companies like Unity3D. Have you seen their website in 1999? It's pretty cool!
* Old tutorials on websites that don't exist anymore.
There is so much use to IA when those that store our information would gladly pull it out from under us to save a few dollars.
It would be also very useful for me to stroll into a random bank and take a few hundred thousand, but alas I cannot. ZLibrary and Pirate Bay are also incredibly useful.
Sites have the right to remove content, and are sometimes legally required to. Sometimes even for good reason.
You've almost definitely used the IA if you have spent any amount of time browsing articles on Wikipedia. Appropriately sourcing information is a fundamental (and imperfect) part of Wikipedia, and doing so relies extensively on the creation of static IA snapshots to preserve the cited information.
Wow, pretentious much. The Wayback machine is an interesting passing curiosity that with great luck sometimes saves a webpage that isn't completely broken. The average person has never heard of its existence. Sure it's fun looking at how web pages used to look like and laugh at terrible designs but it's not exactly part of anyone's real workflow and surely violates right to delete and a bunch of other copyright laws.
You've stolen and rehosted the world's content and now you're surprised people are suing you? Do these people hear themselves? Did they not see pirating sites being fought tooth and nail in the past decades? I'm frankly surprised that the FBI hasn't sized their domains years ago.