Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
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Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#2They should fire what even nitwit thought this obviously illegal plan was a good idea in the first place. The fallout will likely tank the entire archive in the long term.
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#3Archive.org looks a bit like astalavista these days.
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#4Recently discussed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707084 (4 days ago, 48 comments)
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#5They should fire what even nitwit thought this obviously illegal plan was a good idea in the first place. The fallout will likely tank the entire archive in the long term.
90% of the "archive" is just mass piracy anyway
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#6They should fire what even nitwit thought this obviously illegal plan was a good idea in the first place. The fallout will likely tank the entire archive in the long term.
It was through lending, this was due to a change of policy of lending during COVID-19 to ease access
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#7They should fire what even nitwit thought this obviously illegal plan was a good idea in the first place. The fallout will likely tank the entire archive in the long term.
It was through lending, this was due to a change of policy of lending during COVID-19 to ease access
It lending done flagrantly in violation of the licensing. They were taking a copy licensed to be lent ONCE and giving it to thousands of people at once.
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#8Is there a communuty project that maintains a copy of the 500k books? Is there a libgen torrent or anna's archive torrent?
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was through lending, this was due to a change of policy of lending during COVID-19 to ease access
It lending done flagrantly in violation of the licensing. They were taking a copy licensed to be lent ONCE and giving it to thousands of people at once.
their lending scheme is timed by hour with the option to renew with some restraints, it is not lending to thousands at once
Re: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It lending done flagrantly in violation of the licensing. They were taking a copy licensed to be lent ONCE and giving it to thousands of people at once.
their lending scheme is timed by hour with the option to renew with some restraints, it is not lending to thousands at once
Then why did they just get their ass royally handed to them in court?