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drum55 5 hours ago

Should providing a public service absolve all sins?

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JasonADrury 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So far, the only sin archive.today has been accused of is retaliating against a guy attempting to dox them.

That's a pretty small sin in my book. To be written off as wildly unsuccessful but entirely justified self defense.

DDoSing gyrovague.com is silly, not evil.

The content on gyrovague.com which targets archive.today is evil, plain and simple.

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ellen364 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The person who runs archive.today decided to involve me, and every other visitor, in their dispute. They decided to use us to hurt someone else. That's a pretty big sin in my book.

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Permik 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

archive.today has a documented history of altering the archived content, as such they immediately lose the veil of protection of a service of "public good" in my books.

Just my 2 ¢, not that it really matters anymore in this current information-warfare climate and polarization. :/

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baal80spam 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> archive.today has a documented history of altering the archived content

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks.

	▲	JasonADrury 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Archive.org has an even worse history of this, FWIW. It allows website owners and third parties to tamper with archived content. Look here, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701040026/http://echo.msk.r... Archive.today is by far the best option available.

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miken123 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> So far, the only sin archive.today has been accused of is retaliating against a guy attempting to dox them.

I think you're missing that circumventing paywalls is unlawful in most parts of the world.

	▲	animuchan 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Respectfully, it's not, in most parts of the world.
	▲	choo-t 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> I think you're missing that circumventing paywalls is unlawful in most parts of the world. And a necessity if you want to archive the content correctly, also necessary if you want the archives to be publicly available.
	▲	Hamuko 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not really sure if circumventing paywalls is that unlawful across the world, but basically copying and pasting an entire web page is just clear and simple copyright violation.

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vachina 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know it's petty. But don't act surprised when you find your garbage strewn all over your lawn next morning after you flipped off your neighbor the fourth time.

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kuschkufan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Look at "i-pay-for-all-online-articles-always" over here.