My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
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#2Archive is clearly getting awfully nervous about the current lawsuits against them - I’m not sure this is going to do them any good though.
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#3Nothing makes me more angry than publishers who act like this. I regularly deal with the academic publishing industry and feel the pain of professors and students alike.
The usual suspects are involved here -
>I call on the executives at Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House to come together with us to help solve the pressing challenges to access to knowledge during this pandemic.
The publishing industry should take a cue from the gaming industry. Offer games at a reasonable price, make delivery easy and you only stand to profit. Services like Steam, GOG, Epic et al have massively reduced game piracy. If books were being sold for a couple of dollars each online, we would not need lawsuits like this.
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#5Considering they were only lending to one person at a time, it does seem like the lawsuit is uncalled for.
Re: My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
#6Nothing makes me more angry than publishers who act like this. I regularly deal with the academic publishing industry and feel the pain of professors and students alike. The usual suspects are involved here - >I call on the executives at Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House to come together with us to help solve the pressing challenges to access to knowledge during this pandemic. The publishing in…
Each industry always tries to hold on to max profits first. They don't have long term vision. They only have yearly balance sheets to care about.
Re: My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
#7Archive is clearly getting awfully nervous about the current lawsuits against them - I’m not sure this is going to do them any good though.
Whataboutism what?
As far as I am concerned, we should be preserving knowledge and making it accessible to the public, not locking up knowledge forever.
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#8Considering they were only lending to one person at a time, it does seem like the lawsuit is uncalled for.
Last I heard from this story, the lawsuit was because of unlimited lending:
Re: My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
#9> In total, 650 million books were locked up just in public libraries alone. Because of that, we felt we could, and should, and needed to make the digitized versions of those books available to students
Libraries also have movies and music... should they have put those out for free too? I love wayback machine but I’m not sure I follow the logic on this one. I’m no legal expert but that seems like pretty iffy reasoning.
Re: My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
#10Archive is clearly getting awfully nervous about the current lawsuits against them - I’m not sure this is going to do them any good though.
Whataboutism what? As far as I am concerned, we should be preserving knowledge and making it accessible to the public, not locking up knowledge forever.
Should anyone get compensated for creating the knowledge? If you "lend out" unlimited copies for a single copy you own, that compensation gets pretty much limited to a single copy and thew few copies that friends, family and fans buy, doesn't it?