The original treaty put the UN in charge of seabed mining, and allowed them to regulate and tax. It would have mainly taxed Western companies who were able to do seabed mining. Also, it originally required technology transfer and American companies would have to share their tech and patents with the whole world. After the collapse of the USSR the US pushed for the treaty to be amended to limit taxation, remove the tech Transfer, and guarantee the US a veto if they joined.

The amendment was enough to convince the W Bush admin to join the treaty, and the ratification process was started in the Senate, but basically what happened is Obama became president and supported it so the Republican Party torpedoed the treaty just to cause disruption.

The Internet Archive is like YouTube when it comes to this stuff. Some random internet user uploaded the video and filled out the page. It stays up until they receive a DCMA notice and because the uploader checked the box that they had the rights, the IA is not responsible for having believed them.

They just aren't as aggressive as google and don't have automated bots to search for copyrighted content as they don't care about relations with big media companies.

I was surprised they recalled my 1999 Acura CL over this in 2020. I plan on keeping it until they need to replace the airbag again just so I can go into the dealer and complain that they just don’t make cars like they used to.