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Do you have any proof what so ever of this? I have a single counter example: https://archive.org/download/TheUltimateSharewareCollect



The links at the top of your page take you right to it, for example https://archive.org/details/software

Just search for literally any piece of software or media you want, and you will find multiple copies of it uploaded by random people without permission. Petabytes upon petabytes of games, movies, TV shows, software, etc. constantly uploaded 24/7 for years, is all right there out in the open for anyone in the world to download. Want a zip file with every Nintendo game ever made? There's a dozen different scene groups all with their full dumps available right there. Have a favorite TV show? They have every episode of it.

Jason Scott himself has publicly advocated for people to "upload whatever you want and ask questions later" because it's "too difficult" to figure out copyright and their stance is always to just wait until a rightsholder complains before taking anything down.


Every single Nintendo game ROM for all systems, every arcade ROM you can imagine, acres of PlayStation games. It's a full on pirate site in there.

You can even play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and thousands more from one click in the browser if downloading the stuff to your hard drive instead of your browser cache is too much trouble.




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