But while I was saying "The idea of this archive being used for profit is horrifying, it shouldn't exist at all!" they were with me right up till the last part "The idea of this archive being used for profit is horrifying, it should be a free public resource"
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Brewster Kahle, anyway, clearly falls into that category Like he read Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End and saw the idea of the entirety of all human cultural production in the pre-digital era being stored in a single metal block as exciting and invigorating rather than nauseating
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I dunno, man, all the cool digirati people dunk on the EU's "right to be forgotten" -- which, sure, is a crappy sloppily written law that doesn't accomplish that much -- but their total lack of empathy for the concept really disturbs me on a visceral level
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You know what I find comforting? That there's a fic I really liked a long time ago, and when I looked on AO3, the author had deleted their account and the fic was completely gone And it wasn't popular enough for anyone to archive it anywhere, it's vapor, vanished
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I have no idea why, and I have no idea how to get in touch with the author Maybe they were embarrassed by having written smutty fanfic, or maybe they were more embarrassed by all the "serious" plotty stuff that overtook the smut, by how invested their past self was in this crap
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Maybe it was fandom drama, maybe it was to spite a specific person, maybe they converted to fundie Christianity and they felt obligated to nuke it I dunno It doesn't matter It doesn't exist anymore, as far as I know, but in my head, where it will slowly degrade
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AND THAT'S AWESOME I don't have the RIGHT to a copy of it if the author doesn't want me to have it The author wanted this piece of their life vanished as though it never happened and THEY SUCCEEDED, which in our world is incredibly rare and difficult, it's like a miracle
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People on the Internet ALL THE TIME try to erode this superpower, this gift, this blessing of having something you did be forgotten as though it never happened, and they think they're doing the author a favor "Anyone happen to have a cached copy of this? Please please PLEEASE"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm in a different mindset about the Internet Archive than... basically anyone. I think the Wayback Machine is harmful for the reasons you suggest, but the other stuff, where they're preserving stuff like music, books, and films, is invaluable.
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It bears repeating that the Authors' Guild and publishers didn't go after them for any of that, the Emergency Free Library that triggered the lawsuit had the vast majority of its downloads be of works published in the past 20 years that were still in print
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Ugh, wait, that's a serious opinion, I said I wasn't doing this, disregard
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