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Archive.org respects robots.txt. Nothing unilateral about it.



How many of the webforums you post on give you access to update the robots.txt file to inform Internet Archive about your copyright desires?

Like I said - I'm conflicted about this, I _want_ these images to be available, and whatever the guy wrote in his forum post we know Google (and Blekko!) will index and download them and will pretty soon be causing them to be "otherwise distributed outside of this forum" - but the guy's wishes are clear, even if not explicitly machine-readable.


The photos aren't on the forum, they are on an image hosting website. Other images on the forum are hosted on the forum. If the guy knows how to host his images elsewhere, he should be able to figure out how to host the images someplace with a robots.txt that he likes.




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