> It takes a court decision to know if the law was broken or not.
It takes only a working mind to know that, and the court's decision was obvious to most before it was rendered. This could have been foreseen (and was).
> You apparently forget that the Wayback Machine itself breaks copyright laws and went to court over this many times.
...and they had good reason to do so then as there were fair use arguments to be made in favor of what they'd done. That was not the case here, and they were warned repeatedly and chose to ignore that advice.
> The IA exists in the first place because Brewster Kahle isn't afraid to test what's possible and go to court if necessary.
There's a difference between being unafraid and being foolish. Guess which one this was.
> You can take it or leave it. Or you can build your own archive... oh wait, you can't because it breaks the copyright law which is unacceptable for you.
Ah yes, except for that whole fair use thing and explicit carve-outs for the actually legal work they do, which I've been commending throughout this entire thread. Please take your blackwhite thinking elsewhere. It's not productive.
Wayback Machine is NOT fair use, you just invented that out of thin air. They produce full copies of copyrighted content, store them and make them available for the general public. They have been sued repeatedly over the content they host and the content in question was removed. There were no explicit carve-outs that I'm aware of.
Now the same thing happens with the CDL: they're sued over the content they host, they try to defend their rights, they lose and now will have to remove the content. Somehow you're upset and knew from the start they would fail.
> Please take your blackwhite thinking elsewhere. It's not productive.
This is amusing because your position of "don't break the law, change the it first, then do what you want" IS what's unproductive. Laws don't change when no one breaks them, it's works the other way round.
All these "carve-outs' and "fair use thing" you value so much appeared because it was demonstrated on practice they are necessary. People fought for their rights, people challenged the laws, people demonstratively broke the laws and laws changed as the result. There's no other way.
It takes only a working mind to know that, and the court's decision was obvious to most before it was rendered. This could have been foreseen (and was).
> You apparently forget that the Wayback Machine itself breaks copyright laws and went to court over this many times.
...and they had good reason to do so then as there were fair use arguments to be made in favor of what they'd done. That was not the case here, and they were warned repeatedly and chose to ignore that advice.
> The IA exists in the first place because Brewster Kahle isn't afraid to test what's possible and go to court if necessary.
There's a difference between being unafraid and being foolish. Guess which one this was.
> You can take it or leave it. Or you can build your own archive... oh wait, you can't because it breaks the copyright law which is unacceptable for you.
Ah yes, except for that whole fair use thing and explicit carve-outs for the actually legal work they do, which I've been commending throughout this entire thread. Please take your blackwhite thinking elsewhere. It's not productive.