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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

if the courts decide that scraping is illegal, IA can close up shop.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    They could move to a voluntary model in the worst case, they don't profit from it. Institute a "robots.txt" style protocol for signalling opt-in intent to volunteer for scraping by the archive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    yeah that might work, but what will happen to all the data they store currently?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I would imagine someone would still need to actually sue the Internet Archive for this to be a problem for them. The vast majority probably won't care, and they'll likely just have to deal with whatever the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice is for them.

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