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Kimcartoon was taken down today (DMCA) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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For years, this site served millions diligently, but was taken down today by DMCA

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea I hope so, but at the same time I would like to see this archived in a proper way. Meaning that there must also be an exception in the law to allow archiving of old software/games/....

Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive And this petition: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

[–] progandy@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Archiving might be allowed even now, but not with a public download library.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As far as I know, it isn't illegal to attain or have media for personal use. It is illegal to circumvent DRM and to distribute the media.

So, for example, it isn't illegal to record a stream. But the hoops you'd have to jump through in order to do so would end up circumventing DRM or with incredibly poor quality.