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What’s the danger in uploading to archive.org?

Aside from the can of worms that is copyright infringement? There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org.

Not uploading people's stuff to permanent, public archives seems like a good rule of thumb.

Isn't this just passing the URL to archive.org which then does the actual archiving?

If it isn't already public (i.e., reachable by archive.org), it won't be afterwards?

Something can be public today and not tomorrow. Something can be made public by accident. Something can be publically reachable (i.e. a private URL but one without a login) without the intention of being searchable.

> There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org.

I really wanna read this but can't find the thread, do you happen to have a link?

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