The Internet Archive just got its ass handed to it in a court case about these issues so I feel pretty comfortable with the conclusion I drew upthread.
Well the publisher won in public opinion if that's your interpretation. Now anything trying to be a digital archive is privy to being taken down. A very dangerous precedent. I fear for the Wayback machine more or less letting corporations rewrite history
- P2P networking by itself is not piracy, but the casual connection can put a lot of honest sites in danger, from malicious actors.
- If the Internet Archive survives its current ideal, this is an easier way to kill that off.
- Any storage company that can't pay enough money can be thrown off the map. You can share files, which may or may not be copyright after all.
rulings like these start to make the cracks.