It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
Archiving digital media is making backups and copies. That is what archiving those things is intrinsically, immutably.
Making backups and copies is also what the IP owners would refer to as piracy.
You cannot be pro-internet-archive and anti-piracy at the same time, at least not fully. They are contradictory positions.