https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48243
--- Comment #10 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- (In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #9)
- Excerpt from https://archive.org/about/:
"Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. We work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections."
Anyone can upload anything and make it available to the public, so it's equivalent to a generic filesharing website.
AFAIK the main use is mirroring things that are already public. Do you have evidence that a random person can replace a binary from http://example.com with their own? That's the first I've heard such an allegation.
They allow other uploads as well, but that's a separate feature from the wayback machine. As far as I'm concerned, however, the first case it's legitimate, same as, e.g. Google cache
Anyway, if you're suggesting a change/discussion of that policy, please start a thread on wine-devel.