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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 30 2024, @06:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-net-never-forgets-ha dept.

Web developer Trevor Morris has a short post on the attrition of web sites over the years.

I have run the Laravel Artisan command I built to get statistics on my outgoing links section. Exactly one year later it doesn't make good reading.

[...] The percentage of total broken links has increased from 32.8% last year to 35.7% this year. Links from over a decade ago have a fifty per cent chance of no longer working. Thankfully, only three out of over 550 have gone missing in the last few years of links, but only time will tell how long they'll stick around.

As pointed out in the early and mid 1990s, the inherent centralization of sites, later web sites, is the basis for this weakness. That is to say one single copy exists which resides under the control of the publisher / maintainer. When that one copy goes, it is gone.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday January 30 2024, @09:18PM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Tuesday January 30 2024, @09:18PM (#1342444) Journal

    Copyright on particular data is inadequate legal paradigm for any integrated dataspace, Internet included.
    This will predictably break things because of technical irresponsibility of data owners.

    For this reason, a concept of copyright (or any kind of "intellectual property") has no future in advanced digital civilization.
    For transitional period, what about "backupright"?

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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday January 31 2024, @11:30AM (1 child)

    by pTamok (3042) on Wednesday January 31 2024, @11:30AM (#1342489)

    There's no copyright on data. There is copyright on creative works. The hurdle for creativity is low, but not zero - see 'sweat of the brow' works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday February 02 2024, @05:07AM

      by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Friday February 02 2024, @05:07AM (#1342744) Journal

      In digital domain of existence, any creative work must be represented as data. Otherwise it is not digitally existent. Thus, a copyright on work is attempted to be transitively extended to its representation data.

      'Sweat of brow' actually means labour, euphemism to a dirty word which is considered a vulgarism in noble castes themselves who invented concept of copyright.
      Imagine any road pavement worker had a copyright for his stonework or asphalt craft or plumber for his pipe assembly and you may see the absurdity of the concept.

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