Archive.org requests donations.
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:05 am
I regularly receive quests for a donation. I understand their needs to pay for servers, staff etc. But AFAIK archive.org is divided in two features: one is offering scans of documents, made by a number of universities and libraries. See the bottom of https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Universities_and_Libraries Of course this is very valuable.
The second one is offering archived versions of web pages that have been withdrawn. But what is the contribution of this second feature to the costs of archive.org? And do the authors of these withdrawn pages wish their beeing archived?
In my view archive.org should give up this second feature. Any idea? I can't seem to find the right forum for this issue on the archive.org site.
The second one is offering archived versions of web pages that have been withdrawn. But what is the contribution of this second feature to the costs of archive.org? And do the authors of these withdrawn pages wish their beeing archived?
In my view archive.org should give up this second feature. Any idea? I can't seem to find the right forum for this issue on the archive.org site.