internet archive should move their server/business to china or russia so these greedy companies more hard to touch them
Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
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Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#12What is the best way to let these greedy bastards know that we disagree with their conduct? Not buying records will only lead to them wrongfully claiming that they "lost revenue due to piracy".
Stop voting in capitalistic assholes who value intelectual and property rights over everything else.
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#13So the internet archive is knowing distributing media still under copyright?
Is this not a slam dunk win for the record labels? Sounds like the internet archive officially made recordings available for download.
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#14internet archive should move their server/business to china or russia so these greedy companies more hard to touch them
Would they allow permanently archiving content which is censored by their own regimes?
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#15> The complaint states that when the 78rpm records were converted into digital files, IA reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. When IA copied those files to a server, that amounted to another unauthorized reproduction
Am I wrong to interpret this as trying to outlaw ripping a CD and uploading to a personal NAS? There’s additional claims about distribution to the public that (may??) seem more reasonable, but that seems like some copyright maximalism trying to rewrite history?
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#16What is the best way to let these greedy bastards know that we disagree with their conduct? Not buying records will only lead to them wrongfully claiming that they "lost revenue due to piracy".
A brick through a window used to be a common way to make a message known.
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#17> The complaint states that when the 78rpm records were converted into digital files, IA reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. When IA copied those files to a server, that amounted to another unauthorized reproduction Am I wrong to interpret this as trying to outlaw ripping a CD and uploading to a personal NAS? There’s additional claims about distribution to the public that (may??) seem more reasonabl…
Courts have ruled that merely executing an exe file is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM. That's how deep it goes.
The reason no users are violating copyright when running software normally is because of a special exception for software in the Copyright Act.
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#18What is the best way to let these greedy bastards know that we disagree with their conduct? Not buying records will only lead to them wrongfully claiming that they "lost revenue due to piracy".
How? Set up your own record label and implement your wish list of better terms. If you're reading hacker news, there's a good chance you can do most of the coding for free/stock/spec. Then you can be like totally cool about piracy and drink all of the kool aid about how piracy is just a different form of promotion. My guess is that you'll come to the same conclusion as me: piracy destroys marketplaces. It forces the…
> how expensive it can be to market music.
Did you write this comment in 2001? The cost to produce and promote music has dropped to near zero. SoundCloud rappers have become millionaires. Billie Eilesh recorded her first album in her bedroom.
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#19This really scares me. The wayback machine is a treasure. I don't know what will happen to it if these cases succeed.
we'll lose it like the great library of alexander
Re: Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
#20What is the best way to let these greedy bastards know that we disagree with their conduct? Not buying records will only lead to them wrongfully claiming that they "lost revenue due to piracy".
How? Set up your own record label and implement your wish list of better terms. If you're reading hacker news, there's a good chance you can do most of the coding for free/stock/spec. Then you can be like totally cool about piracy and drink all of the kool aid about how piracy is just a different form of promotion. My guess is that you'll come to the same conclusion as me: piracy destroys marketplaces. It forces the…
i grew up downloading everything from music to games, and windows xp, anything i could get my hands on
these days i do pay for everything, music(spotify), movies(netflix, apple tv), games(steam, gog, itch.io, playstation), to software(app store, gh sponsor, opencollective) – i still pirate though; if netflix has an anime but happens to be dubbed on the wrong language, i'll hit the high seas and get me a copy dubbed in english, no regrets