Last week it was reported that GameStop, a clown show of a company peddling meme stocks and cheap video game merchandise, had unceremoniously and without notice shut down Game Informer, a magazine and website that had been publishing in some form since 1991. The decision was a terrible one for many reasons. For readers and […]
It seems like a very dangerous, very slippery slope. The first people to abuse this would be the big corporations who want to hide and cover up as much as they possibly can. I think the copyright law framework is a useful lens to view this with which I outlined in my response above.
Totally get what you’re saying, but I’m highlighting the mechanical step of a third party having “every right” to scrape or persist your content is in complete contrast to the other points in this thread about rights to be forgotten and so on.
Right to be forgotten is specifically for personally identifiable information. And I’m pretty sure it’s sound on copyright grounds as long as you don’t distribute. And honestly, I don’t really see a problem with it.
And if you’ve made a personal website, say, with a blog of your valuable ideas/art (valuable to you, or anyone, arbitrarily), the ability to erase your site represents forgetting. The whole site may contain your PII throughout.
Any scraping or archiving techniques degrade that right.
You have a right to be forgotten. Your ideas and the work you create does not.