"Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper," writes Joe Mullin. "That's effectively what's begun happening online in the last few months." He elaborates, "turning off that preservation in an effort to control AI access could essentially torch decades of historical documentation over a fight that libraries like the Archive didn't start, and didn't ask for. If publishers shut the Archive out, they aren't just limiting bots. They're erasing the historical record." For the record, I agree. Via Slashdot.
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