• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Who else is better equipped? In my view it would solely depend on the lawyers that internet archive hires, and money plays a big factor in that.

    The EFF. This kind of thing is why they exist.

    The Archive making themselves an easier target was a huge misstep IMO. All it takes is one overreaching judge telling them they need to purge all copyrighted data (a common judgment in lawsuits like this) and the world becomes a worse place.

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      5 months ago

      Realistically, they could just move their servers abroad to a country with less problematic copyright rules and wind up their US operations. It would make no difference to the end user, unless ISPs are also ordered to block access. And even then it’d only be a VPN away.

      The risk of total data loss is not zero, but it’s also not the likely outcome.