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by MegaDeKay 2058 days ago
Their DMCA exemption granted by the Copyright Office.

https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

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That gets them around the "prohibition on circumvention of access controls". I still don't understand how they can then go and distribute the programs without violating copyright. In fact, I'm still pretty certain they are violating copyright.

Copyright sucks, and I applaud them for what they are doing, but I don't see how any of this is legal.

They will take down content (and keep it archived meanwhile) if the original rightsholders complain.