Why archive.org can't prove the authenticity of their snapshots

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Recently, a federal judge ruled against the Internet Archive in their mission to preserve ebooks. While this doesn’t have anything to do with the WayBack Machine, it led me to wonder: why do we need a centralized platform to take and share website snapshots in the first place? Why not let users take them themselves and share them around the internet? The answer to this question seems obvious…

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