@molly0xfff Like, if someone says "I'm archiving your blog post in this database to preserve it for future readers" I think that's probably ok. If they bought a copy of an app I was selling and then "archived it" by letting everyone else in the world download it from their site without paying me, obviously I would be unhappy. Of course some people think both should be legal or both should be illegal, but surely everyone can agree those are two different things?
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People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is. -
People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is.@molly0xfff I see a big ethical difference between archiving web content that the author has chosen to make available for free, and distributing digital copies of books that authors are actively trying to make a living from selling. I'm not a lawyer so I can't really comment on the legality of either, but it also seems obvious that the second one is more likely to attract lawsuits.
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People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is.@molly0xfff I still think it's pretty reasonable to be annoyed that they jeopardized one service by making a really risky move with a different service. They probably could've predicted that "unlimited free access to books that are actively being sold" would've upset book publishers. Honestly I struggle to see a good legal or ethical argument for their actions unless you're opposed to copyright as a concept. There's a difference between bending the rules and ignoring them.
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Looks like there has been a fair bit of discussion about the architecture of Mastodon previews and “DDoS-ing” web sites:@zachleat It says they're supposed to be spread over 60 seconds though. In practice probably more, since it should take some time for all the instances to pick up the post in the first place. The author says "I'm yet to see that work for me" but I'm unclear of that means they have evidence that it isn't happening or their site is just still crashing regardless. The lack of specific data makes it hard to draw conclusions.
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Looks like there has been a fair bit of discussion about the architecture of Mastodon previews and “DDoS-ing” web sites:@zachleat Yeah, even if all ~30,000 mastodon instances hit the server within 60 seconds (unlikely), that's still only 500 requests per second. That seems pretty manageable? At least for public content that's identical for every user. A real DDoS by an attacker can be *millions* of requests per second.