Pathe has their own archive which they are making available to the public using the most accessible method. Why would they upload their archive to another archive?
to avoid losing everything if their archive is destroyed.
It happened to a musician whose studio got destroyed by fire and he got most of his work back from archive.org
it's called offsite backup of some sort and it is really smart to do. Providing you want to share its content with the world, archive.org is a good place to mirror your archive.
So you are suggesting that you think Pathe has never archived their entire collection in a safe and redundant way? No offense to your strawman musician but there is quite a gulf in their approach to business.
