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Why is everyone so mad about this? I mean, it's a salty article, but yeah, it kinda sucks when publications don't give notice before closing down. I think providing the public, including previous contributors, time to archive content is a good practice.
It's a good practice, sure. But as per the headline, the author wants to make it a law. That's why people are not having it.
Actually the author himself is somewhat harmed by this situation. I would be salty too. When I wish to write my CV, I can say: my text have been published at X and Y. Especially nice if it's an important and well known publication. Now a part of his CV is literally erased, he can't access his own texts anymore (not even on Internet Archive). That's... utterly ridiculous. It's a common practice to send the author a copy (or multiple) of the text he has published, he has every right to own a copy of them. Now the copy that was intended to be available to everyone is not available even to him. Something of the sort really has happened to me too when a website I published an article on a site underwent a redesign and now the text just isn't available anymore. Admittedly it's still on IA, but it's an awkward situation.
Why wouldn't you save a copy if it's so important to you?
What do you mean by "saving a copy"? I still have the .doc file somewhere in my emails. If I told you I'm a serious published writer, and then you asked me where you can read my texts, and I sent you a .doc that hasn't been proofread, would you take me seriously?