This is a phenomenon that I think we can attribute to the internet age. We are not talking about destroying single works of art here. We are talking the equivalent of a book going out of print.
The reason something is removed from the net is irrelevant, just as the reasoning behind allowing a book to go out of print is also irrelevant. It simply happens. But this is not the same as going into a gallery or a private collection, removing, and then destroying an original piece of art or a manuscript.
There are multiple copies of these stories out there, on individual hard-drives and sometimes in locked journals, just as there are copies of out of print books in homes, libraries and second-hand book shops. You simply have to ask around.
What is simply happening, with the removal of stories from from The Wayback Machine and Google search archives etc, is really no different than the decision to no longer keep a book in print.
It is just that, in this day and age of the internet, some, yourself included it would appear, feel that a writer does not have the right to allow his/her work to 'go out of print' for want of a better analogy.
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Date: 2006-10-28 03:42 am (UTC)The reason something is removed from the net is irrelevant, just as the reasoning behind allowing a book to go out of print is also irrelevant. It simply happens. But this is not the same as going into a gallery or a private collection, removing, and then destroying an original piece of art or a manuscript.
There are multiple copies of these stories out there, on individual hard-drives and sometimes in locked journals, just as there are copies of out of print books in homes, libraries and second-hand book shops. You simply have to ask around.
What is simply happening, with the removal of stories from from The Wayback Machine and Google search archives etc, is really no different than the decision to no longer keep a book in print.
It is just that, in this day and age of the internet, some, yourself included it would appear, feel that a writer does not have the right to allow his/her work to 'go out of print' for want of a better analogy.
I can't agree with this stand.