Razer [1]Rayzer@riseup.net
   Sat Oct 10 15:30:01 EDT 2015
On 10/10/2015 11:51 AM, Shelley wrote:
>
> The Cryptome archives *are* publicly accessible.

Imho It's NOT his (Best's) material to decide to post without permission
of the creator. Publicly available or not, at Archive.org.

   Cryptome owns the copyright for very little of the material in their
   archive. Most of it is public domain items or things that were
   reprinted from elsewhere, like news articles. John uses these under
   fair use, for educational and research purposes. If John wants to
   assert a copyright claim for the items that they did originally
   produce, then they are welcome to do so. I'm sure they're capable of it
   without you.
   But I'm guessing that won't convince you, so maybe John Young can.
   Let's hear from him, shall we?
   "We would have dumped it, the whole thing. Everyone else likes to play
   this game: 'What if we harm somebody' or all this kind of crap. Which
   is strictly cowardice."
   Deborah Natsios said that one of their goals is "To pry open the
   privatised domain, the realm of copyright interests, the not-public
   domain, the not-public space of corporate interests—but there are
   private security guards, global security mercenaries who patrol that
   boundary."
   John then added "We're great advocates of plagiarism and stealing."
   I feel like posting the entire archive for educational and research
   purposes is entirely fair game. He argues that Citizenfour should be in
   the public domain, and I'm sure he'd make that same argument about his
   archive. If not, he'll speak up.
   --Mike

References

   1. mailto:Rayzer@riseup.net?Subject=Re: Why cryptome sold web logs to their paying customers?&In-Reply-To=<56196739.2040408@riseup.net>