Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "The Death of the Internet Archive" video.

  1.  @orrorsaness5942  japan has really bad copyright law
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  2.  @HunterStiles651  they got old and changed their world view
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  3. yea i think the early 2000s are the worst time for music and its better today because while mainstream music is even worse now i have more choice and i can listen to more obscure new music that isn't trying to appeal to everyone .while in the early 2000s i had less choice and. i liked the more mainstream music in the 90s but if i didn't it would have been even worse than the 2000s.
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  4. or at least after a few years of not being in print
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  5. yea i think a problem with the world today is that when something bad happens random people and organisations feel like they have to do "something" even if it doesn't make any sense and will only make things worse .
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  6. my take is that copyright should just last until they stopped selling the thing for more than a few years this way everyone is happy
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  7. i think they started out as good guys but got corrupted over the years
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  8. yea too bad there isn't a lot of software that is over 50 maybe pong or the original Unix
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  9. they are on many other places too
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  10. i find myself using the wayback machine more and more because of my favourite old sites get shut down and are not replaced by new ones there are a lot of links that just end up to discontinued sites and many of these have been offline for over 10 years. people have been making alternatives to the wayback machine but they are too new and don't have most of the stuff i care about .most people didn't care about it in the 2000s and late 90s they thought most of the old sites would stay up forever. or that the things on there would become obsolete or irrelevant or just backed up elsewhere. i used to think that in the future we would have to worry about googling things and getting 20 year old news or other outdated stuff. but turns out that is not the case since 99% of the stuff posted in 2004 has been deleted over the years. as far as books go all the books on archive are available somewhere else anyway and the wayback machine is their most important asset by far. its like a cycle like only in the last few years people started caring about preserving digital media like websites and video games. 50 years ago the same was happening with movies when people found out a lot of movies from the early 20th century were lost because people at the time didn't think people in the future would care about them. but most movies that were made after 1970 are well preserved even the low budget failed ones. and the same happened to books in the more distant past .
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