[mb-users] Using archive.org for cover art

Kuno Woudt kuno at frob.nl
Fri Oct 12 07:02:43 UTC 2007


On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:28:29AM +0800, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> Archive.org isn't just any other webcache -- it's supposed to archive
> everything, forever. Not to be rude, but archive.org is much more
> likely to be around in 100 years than MusicBrainz itself, so is there
> really a reliability issue here? 

No, not a reliability issue.  A social issue, how does musicbrainz
appear to new musicbrainz users and potential musicbrainz customers?

> How about just contacting archive.org and stating how we want to use 
> their service and see what they have to say?

They've already been contacted.

--kuno.




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