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Piracy for Preservation
2018-06-15 17:52:44.639013+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Confessions of a disk cracker: The secrets of 4AM:
I mentioned this to Jason Scott, and he set me straight. Preservation is driven
by pirates, who are driven by ego but constrained by the technical limitations of their
era. In the 1980s, this meant storage space and network speed. Nobody got kudos for
cracking “Irregular Spanish Verbs in the Future Tense,” no BBS would waste the hard drive
space to host it, and no user would sacrifice their phone line to download it. So it never
got preserved in any form.
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#Comment Re: Piracy for Preservation made: 2018-06-16 18:12:57.722634+02 by:
TheSHAD0W
Things slip through the cracks. (Pardon the pun.)
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