Comment on This should be illegal
dx1@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Archival is extremely important and one of the side effects of copyright schemes is that they limit its viability. The less access people have, the more likely some work becomes lost forever. I’ve seen it a few times already, with recent world, but in one or two hundred years we’re talking about libraries of art that could have been preserved but are just gone.
It’s pretty insane. At first I thought damn, from now on our culture will be so thoroughly documented that future historians will struggle to parse it all, but now I can’t trust anything to last for 5 years and I can’t have copies of it, either.
Piracy shmiracy, some random dude’s homegrown server is not an archive, and anything that fails without electricity to power it is not a copy.
Archival projects like ours !2009scape@kbin.social
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pirates keep many things alive. 🏴☠️🦜