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And Brewster Kahle's notions about culture and information sharing start well before the Internet Archive. In theory one could pick and choose, but this is Brewster's life-long passion project. The man even outfitted a van with a printer and a binder to distribute physical books for free.

It's very strange to insist that he _not_ push the boundaries of copyright law for the common good. without that you wouldn't have had the Wayback machine in the first place.





> It's very strange to insist that he _not_ push the boundaries of copyright law for the common good

He as an individual can keep pushing whatever he wants. Just keep IA out of it.




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