Via Motherboard: “Activists have downloaded nearly 100 years worth of TIME magazine issues from the publication’s paywalled digital archive and dumped them all online for anyone to grab for free. “It was possible and seems worthwhile,” Michael Best, a freedom of information activist who obtained the files, told Motherboard in an online chat. In a statement published along with the files, Best wrote, “They’re a useful research tool with a lot of historical news and cultural information. They should be freely viewable online as they would in a well-stocked library, however most libraries lack this complete a collection of TIME Magazine back-issues.”

Note – this downloading and distribution of copyrighted material from an historic journal, TIME, was not authorized and does not represent access with permissions and rights granted by the copyright and trademark holders.

“The following dump was made available by Michael Best for the purposes of research and historical records. I have further made it available as protection from takedown threats at the request of the source. More information is available in the README.txt file.”