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    18 hours ago

    They could move to a voluntary model in the worst case, they don’t profit from it. Institute a “robots.txt” style protocol for signalling opt-in intent to volunteer for scraping by the archive.

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        15 hours ago

        I would imagine someone would still need to actually sue the Internet Archive for this to be a problem for them. The vast majority probably won’t care, and they’ll likely just have to deal with whatever the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice is for them.