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by marcosdumay 1278 days ago
Copyrights killed the content, not whoever brought the paper.

If you make it illegal to archive the news, the news don't get archived.

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I work in news and can confirm. We have a news archive going back to some previous cohorts of editors who were less professional than the current one and we get hit with a lot of copyright trolling. It's barely worth the effort to fight and even basic compliance is costly. I'm guessing a purely archived site doesn't have any resources to answer complaints.
Whomever bought the paper leveraged copyright and the exclusive rights afforded under it to accomplish that goal.