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The Internet Archive Is Now the Largest Collection of Historical Software Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the biggest-there-is dept.

hypnosec writes "The Internet Archive has a great collection of books, music, visual items and websites but, it had one thing lacking up until now – software. This has changed recently as The Internet Archive now claims to hold the largest collection of software in the world. The expansion at the Internet Archive has come through collaboration with other independent archives like the Disk Drives collection, the FTP site boneyard, Shareware CD Archive, and the TOSEC archive. The archive doesn't hold just the software – it also holds documentation as well."

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  1. Re:"and websites" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    So all I or TBP have to do is clearly mark my pages as "archives" and legally get away with hosting child porn, TBP meta links, torrents and PDF books ?

    Who cares? Our laws against all of those things are insane and anti-freedom.

  2. Re:PirateBay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The links don't stop working if nobody is seeding.

  3. Re:Is there an age when software is considered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is. It's 70 years after the authors death or 95 years if the work was created as work for hire. Just like everything else.

    And yes, it's bat shit crazy. Richard Stallman has posted a view of the subject in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html

  4. Re:"and websites" by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If copyright holders don't like it they can setup their robots file correctly or go cry about it.