Internet Archive Pirates 2005 -

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And if you look hard enough today, deep in the un-indexed corners of archive.org , you can still find a .rar file from 2005, uploaded by "Anonymous," timestamped November 12th, with a readme that says: "Preserve this. They won't." internet archive pirates 2005

But copyright law disagreed. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998) ensured that almost nothing from 1980 onwards was public domain in 2005. By the letter of the law, downloading Super Mario Bros. from the Archive was identical to stealing a DVD from Wal-Mart. Why didn't the FBI shut down the Internet Archive in 2005? By: [Author Name] Date: [Current Date] And if

The Archive encouraged users to upload "collections." While the official mandate was for cultural heritage, the moderators in 2005 were notoriously lax. A user could create a collection called "Classic PC Games Preservation Project" and upload a .zip file of Doom.wad , King’s Quest V , or a cracked version of Windows 95 . By the letter of the law, downloading Super Mario Bros