Greetings, Hackernews. Jason Scott, guy adding these to the collection right now. Great work by the team (they'll all get credited in the Internet Archive announcement when it goes up).
All together now:
* Still adding items (we're at 10,380)
* AWS instances are screenshotting these to find issues
* A notable amount of issues
* Yes, we're using AROS kickstarter ROMs.
* The emulator (Scripted Amiga Emulator) is excellent and will be improved over time
* Enjoy what works
* Have fun
* Viva Amiga
You guys & gals do such good work over there @ archive.org and don't get nearly enough credit. Thank you to the entire team, I have to imagine that it's one hell of an effort to do all the stuff that goes on at The Internet Archive. Please, please keep on doing what you do!
I too would like to see the question asked by unicornporn answered: how could this be legal?
Why isn't the FBI raiding them like it did with Megaupload?
Even if it's technically a non-profit, it's still profiting from this piracy in terms of advertising, which in turn is meant to attract funding, which pays for the officers and other employees and their extravagant office buildings, right? There seems to be a lot of money involved!
The Internet Archive benefits from an exemption concerning the circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms, i.e. section 1201(a)(1). But how can it be covered by the immunity granted under the Safe Harbor provision of section 512(g) of the DMCA, when this is not content submitted by an unrelated user, nor isn't the Internet Archive unaware of the fact that it doesn't own the copyrights on these materials?
The Internet Archive seems to be out of control in the hands of narcissistic egomaniacs like Jason Scott, who doesn't miss an opportunity to boast about his antisocial behavior. Just look at his Twitter feed of the past few days: snaps a photo while driving by a bloody car accident, returns from a wedding overseas and takes a photo of the no-photography sign at the customs office...
This is piracy plain and simple, on both the copyright and the trademark front, on a massive scale. Shame on the Internet Archive for doing what any script kiddie could do from their bedroom (i.e. put an existing TOSEC dump online). With their resources, they should have found a legal way of doing it! We need changes to the law to protect and make accessible true abandonware, not irresponsible actions like these, which are hurting future chances of the Internet Archive and others to foster such changes, and benefit from them.
Thanks Jason. Amiga Emulation is still a PITA, and hopefully this makes it a little bit easier to play the many classic games that the Amiga played host to. Or just use Ultimate SoundTracker :-D.
All together now:
* Still adding items (we're at 10,380) * AWS instances are screenshotting these to find issues * A notable amount of issues * Yes, we're using AROS kickstarter ROMs. * The emulator (Scripted Amiga Emulator) is excellent and will be improved over time * Enjoy what works * Have fun * Viva Amiga