leileilol wrote:
and what makes you believe IA will be around forever? The kind of thing this thread is pointing out bring up issues that could jeopardize its 'reasons' for exemptions and close the archive.
Of course. The Internet in general is more fragile than any physical medium, because its existence depends on having access to several computer locations through connections that have many points of failure. Not to mention the costs of maintaining servers.
What I really wanted to do was to make you all think and form conclusions on your own, and not blindly accept the current laws of today, because I got that impression from some of the posts here. With that said, I realize that there is very little which justifies stealing entertainment for your own enjoyment.
As for the exception from DMCA, I know that it's only supposed to apply to old arcade games and not to most of the games put there, and before they changed the website's looks I remember them being more strict about what they would host.