For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. https://kottke.org/26/04/online-treasure-trove-secret-concert-recordings
Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings

For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.

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Copyright?

The performers own the performance copyright. The material is also mostly copyright.

But the Internet Archive went beyond backup of Websites to pirating of music, video, software and books.

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Just call it AI (Le Archive Internet), and you can do whatever you want!

Simple 😂 🤣