In practice, copyright would be the big problem. There is no Fair Use in Europe. There is no difference between what they do and Anna’s Archive or LibGen. As far as copyright people are concerned, this is just “theft” on a gigantic scale.
Then there’s the GDPR. As far as the EU is concerned, this is one huge human rights violation. The GDPR does allow for archives, but figuring out how the IA should operate would take some litigation. I doubt they would be allowed to provide the Wayback Machine.
The truth is stored on their harddisks. But the truth may become very illegal very soon.
They better move the whole thing out of Usa now.
Well, not to Europe. They’ve always been illegal here. I don’t know where they could even go.
They’re illegal in Europe? Could you elaborate a bit on that?
In practice, copyright would be the big problem. There is no Fair Use in Europe. There is no difference between what they do and Anna’s Archive or LibGen. As far as copyright people are concerned, this is just “theft” on a gigantic scale.
Then there’s the GDPR. As far as the EU is concerned, this is one huge human rights violation. The GDPR does allow for archives, but figuring out how the IA should operate would take some litigation. I doubt they would be allowed to provide the Wayback Machine.
Gotcha. Thanks for explaining it. I’m in the US so I was really curious on what was different in the EU that would cause problems for them