[pgwhalen]

I don’t follow the first paragraph of this comment at all, it just seems vaguely antagonistic. You also seem to be suggesting I’m taking a view on a debate that I am not.

That such a blog post exists at least suggests the legal “question” exists, which again is the only thing I said in the first place.

[Chris2048]

The practise in this case is not starting a competing service to archive.org, but linking to it, so the downsides are what?

[pgwhalen]

Presumably if hosting and sharing copyrighted content is legally questionable, then linking to it (especially systematically) might be as well. IANAL.