I assume that there are mods that are still being added to the list as I can;t find the original Protective Guards. In stead of putting all your eggs in one basket, I suggest creating several pages from A-E, F-J, etc plus a master link page.
Fliggerty's sites are down 3 months now. I think this initiative is totally needed, we already went through a huge disaster with PlanetElderScrolls. Back then we were all thankful to Fliggerty, maybe in a couple of years we'll all be thankful to this guy here. Fliggerty can't have a say in that anyway, it wasn't his mods, he was doing the community a service by providing all other modders' mods from PES that would have vanished otherwise. We are all grateful for that!
Nearly all of those weren't Fliggerty's mods either, which is the entire point here. Not everyone who had things "preserved" on that site gave explicit consent. That consent is required under copyright law. Whether you agree with that or not, that's just how the legalisms of all of this works.
Even Wrye himself recognized that with his Parlor vs Cathedral essay. While he was definitely in favor of the Cathedral side of things, he was also very much aware that it wasn't something you can just impose on a community by force. It had to be adopted by mutual consent. Yes, this means some works will be gone forever, but that's fine. Nothing lasts forever. Part of why he retired was because he couldn't bring about the change he wanted.
In any case, asking what Fliggerty's take on this isn't the material issue. It's what are the takes of the various affected authors, and did they leave behind affirmative consent in their documentation for this.
Consider for a moment also, Archive.org itself believes they're above the law with regard to copyright and will only go against that if you file a DMCA against them for archiving your website without permission. They've been acting as though they're above the law since their inception. Something which is probably about to change with certain legislation in both the US and Canada (and probably the EU too).
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Even Wrye himself recognized that with his Parlor vs Cathedral essay. While he was definitely in favor of the Cathedral side of things, he was also very much aware that it wasn't something you can just impose on a community by force. It had to be adopted by mutual consent. Yes, this means some works will be gone forever, but that's fine. Nothing lasts forever. Part of why he retired was because he couldn't bring about the change he wanted.
In any case, asking what Fliggerty's take on this isn't the material issue. It's what are the takes of the various affected authors, and did they leave behind affirmative consent in their documentation for this.
Consider for a moment also, Archive.org itself believes they're above the law with regard to copyright and will only go against that if you file a DMCA against them for archiving your website without permission. They've been acting as though they're above the law since their inception. Something which is probably about to change with certain legislation in both the US and Canada (and probably the EU too).