Ancestors

Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-09-05 at 02:17

Can someone provide context on what happened with the Internet Archive recently?

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Written by Andreas Spitzer on 2024-09-05 at 02:19

@growlph TL;DR version is that they got sued by a bunch of book publishers for loaning out digital copies of books, because the publishers wanted the licensing fees that most libraries pay

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-09-05 at 02:21

@eviljackcarver They have a book loan program? I thought they primarily did the wayback machine, or is that just a part of their operation?

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Written by penguin42 on 2024-09-05 at 11:28

@growlph @eviljackcarver It's something they started a while back; the idea was they scanned physical books, and then you could 'borrow' them for some time and you could read it until you 'returned' it; and they were trying to argue that was just like a library did and so it was perfectly fine. HTF they came to that conclusion I don't know; it's hardly surprising they lost.

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Descendants

Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-09-05 at 16:40

@penguin42 @eviljackcarver Yeah, I love the work that the IA does, but reading up on this one, I'm not super sympathetic - it looks like they were lending out titles that were still in active publication, but bypassing the process that libraries normally need to go through.

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