• MudMan@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    IA is quickly becoming a massive, risky single point of failure that is one bad lawsuit away from causing a major problem.

    I want to hope they have an exit strategy, but I’m thinking we need to start providing alternatives. A single backup is no backup at all, and all that.

    • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      You mean a lawsuit like the one about the “Great 78 Project” by the music companies or maybe the one about the “National Emergency Library” by the book publishers?

      I think you’re right that we need to start working on alternatives, hopefully something decentralized. The Wayback Machine would be an irreplaceable loss though if the data isn’t preserved somehow.