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Post by immibis »

justin66 wrote: post #260
kleiba wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OP is referring to the ongoing legal struggles the IA is facing wrt. to their version of an online library (with digital book lending).

Precisely. To be clear, I don't agree with a comment upthread saying the "shoutout" is what might potentially do harm to the IA in court. I think the actual act of having scraped all those books from the IA's lending system could potentially do harm to the IA in court. The publishers can now point to all the copies of the books in the wild that IA had in their lending system and argue that IA's system is not legally…

The shout-out is evidence of the act.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by immibis »

qualeed wrote: post #117
borski wrote: post #90

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Except that that’s CloudFlare, which is also blocking Anna’s Archive.

Luckily it isn't the only public DNS. 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and many others exist.

We should stop using public DNS and start using our own DNS.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by mightysashiman »

ijk wrote: post #271
mightysashiman wrote: post #187

remember guys, it's not pirating, it's gathering date from AI model training purposes. Perfectly legal.

I know you're joking, but what the AI training lawsuits have said so far is that training and digitizing used books that you bought is fair use, but piracy isn't.

honestly, the world is becoming such a joke as a whole, that "joke" may well become the new norm.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by noirscape »

kemayo wrote: post #362
Aurornis wrote: post #322

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> Am I an exception? Years ago I was following development of an indie game. The developers wanted to provide a DRM-free experience. The game had some online functionality (leaderboard or something). They were surprised when the number of accounts accessing the online functionality exceeded their sales by a dramatic number. The developer updates grew more and more sad as they switched from discussing new features to…

The difficult bit is working out what percentage of pirated copies are actually replacing a sale that would have happened if the content wasn't available to pirate. The more dramatic industry numbers like to claim it's 100%, which is ridiculous. It's certainly more than 0%, though. I'd assume that for your indie game, there were a lot of people who wound up thinking "I would play this if it's free, but I wouldn't spe…

The problem with game pass is that it takes the Spotify model to games. In practice, it doesn't seem to scale well - Microsoft has seemingly hit a market cap of ~35 million users because of a lot of existing aversion to subscription services in games, which isn't enough customers to actually amortize the cost of development, even at an indie scale.

Indie developers in particular don't like Game Pass because it apparently pays Spotify-tier rates, which is pretty bad. Spotify gets away with it because it took a deal with all big music labels for more favorable payouts, but your average indie band on Spotify makes absolutely zilch from your Spotify subscription, even if you listen to them 24/7 every year. Indie bands typically compensate with concerts and brand merchandise, but that isn't an option for games - secondary income sources are typically reviled (microtransactions in paid games) or don't sell to expectations (merchandise). The Spotify model only "works" because they shifted the music industry to rely primarily on those "side" sources (and even then there's a lot of disgruntled musicians who are unhappy with the Spotify model devaluing their craft).

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by rahimnathwani »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #423
qingcharles wrote: post #330

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Can confirm this is happening. But the money paid is tiny. Think thousands of dollars, not millions. Not enough to keep the lights on. I would assume they do pretty well from donations.

Never assume anyone does well from donations. That's rarely the case.

Donors get benefits.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by subscribed »

account42 wrote: post #438
subscribed wrote: post #347

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In several countries customers are forced to pay a special tax on empty media (storage) with the intention of proceedings to be redistributed among the copyright owners. Some of these countries are codified under the Roman law principle, ie whatever is not explicitly forbidden by law, is simply not forbidden (as opposed to common law). In some countries downloading the published media (eg a film after the official re…

TBH don't think those laws are conscionable because the money collected through those taxes is mainly paid to entrenched copyright cartels instead of being distributed to creators in a fair way.

Paying for media in iTunes store/Amazon Prime, streaming something off Netflix, buying a CD or even going to the cinema is also unfair to the creators.

Looks like the only ethical way to consume the music is to buy it off the creator's website and go to concerts, yes?

You are kind of moving the goalpost.

The comment I replied to was suggesting downloading is unethical because it leads to the loss of sale (which was countered by the study results in another comment).

I replied to it saying that in many countries citizens (residents really) pay special tax (levy) that is compensating for it, at least in the name.

They have compensated the creators in the easy and legal way for the media they now can legally download.

I used to live in one of these countries. I still purchased odd CDs, I was still going to the cinema, I was still buying books and going to concerts, but I also had a very extensive digital library of the media legally downloaded from the Internet.

Because I was taxed so I could do exactly that.

The later story? This is for the creators/copyright owners/lawmakers to argue.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by subscribed »

hinkley wrote: post #193

I was reading a book series from my local library and for reasons I don’t understand they were missing the third or fourth book in the series. Probably damaged or lost. I even thought I could check the local (especially used) bookstores, buy a copy and then gift it to the library, but there’s a new edition that has a completely different vibe and size, with 2024 prices so I thought better of it. So I’d heard of Anna’…

I was firmly in the anti-audiobook camp until I heard the Dune (don't remember whose adaptation). Amazing experience. I still much prefer books (ebooks, because I can carry thousand to choose from when I inevitably finish the one I read), but I have since listened to several audiobooks and I really like how different yet oddly familiar it is, compared to reading.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by Sarky »

gylterud wrote: post #195
aniviacat wrote: post #126

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I'm surprised i2p torrents are still not popular enough to be offered as an option by sites like this. I'd assume there are many people who don't help out purely because of legal fears, something i2p could help with.

What is the status on I2P these days? I used to run a lot of stuff on it. It was a lot of fun. It was like this cozy alternative development of internet, where things still felt like 1997.

it works and is getting better. still no mainstream adoption though.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by tonyhart7 »

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #417
tonyhart7 wrote: post #407

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Yeah people pretending that "piracy" is good because they can try product first before buying which is true but lets be real out of 100 people doing that how many actually buy product in the end???? if net gain is positive then developer would not pay millions to license DRM

> out of 100 people doing that how many actually buy product in the end???? if net gain is positive then developer would not pay millions to license DRM Lets not pretend that markets and companies are actually rational.

*people

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by vasco »

bawolff wrote: post #334
skeaker wrote: post #198

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To be fair, the theory with the whole coin thing is solid, and I'd say it should count as something to be proud of even if in reality it gets tainted by speculative investments.

Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool. I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. Its everything that came after that point that is the probl…

> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

What problem did we solve with bitcoin?

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