I try to understand how this is legal ?
I mean: what is the difference between Archive.org and any other torrent website ?
Aren't they both preserving the culture ?
Archive.org is doing 20M USD in revenue, lot of people are getting paid in the process, and suppliers as well, it's not like they are working for nothing.
They just don't have investors (but can have big salaries).
Genuinely wondering because I saw that you can download games there too (and some are still under commercial exploitation).
I think they're agreeing with you. There's no obvious reason this should be considered fair use.
Last time I checked, Archive.org also host ROMs of various copyrighted Nintendo games. Nintendo are famously litigious so I'm not sure how long that is likely to continue.
Aren't they both preserving the culture ?
Archive.org is doing 20M USD in revenue, lot of people are getting paid in the process, and suppliers as well, it's not like they are working for nothing. They just don't have investors (but can have big salaries).
Genuinely wondering because I saw that you can download games there too (and some are still under commercial exploitation).