Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library.
  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    I read some 500,000 books got removed. Is there going to be even more removed? Man if the IA goes down or loses all the stuff I use it for then there's another reason for not going online anymore.

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    So fucking dumb

    Copyright law as we know it doesn’t make proper sense considering the fact that plagiarism generators have been normalized

    Guessing the courts won’t touch “AI” though

    🤔

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I JUST got clued into the fact that this website wasn't just a scrape of internet sites. Someday I want to have a big ol file server and by the time that day comes, it'll be over whywhywhywhywhy

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I've been using the internet archive to download roms and ISOs of games I already own for game emulation for years now. Just create an account and you can access everything, for example

      https://archive.org/download/RedumpSonyPS2NTSCU

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    I seriously think projects like this should all be run from China or wherever they wouldn't be subjected to this kind of thing.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      China is increasingly enforcing IP laws as they develop IP advantages, and co-operate with other states

      They withdraw that cooperation from time to time though

  • thetaT [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    who needs archives and records when you have bazinga startups and record shareholder profite