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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Whether ethical or unethical future generations will be able to have better chance at having access to historical digital archives that would have just disappeared thanks to pirates.
Much like how if a pirate from the past was copying down literature despite not being given permission to. Then a fire burns down and the official archives are lost except for the ancient pirate's copies. Wonder if there has been cases like that where illicit copying led to being the backup.
That's pretty much how ancient texts survived. People would write to each other at the time, asking "hey, do you know that guy who has a copy of Epictetus's Enchiridion? Could you have him send it to me, I'll make a copy and send his back". There are many ancient works that we know existed in this way because we have the letters asking for them, but the actual text of the work didn't survive.
You just summed up how all knowlledge of everything has ever and will ever manage to exist does.