If they are looking for seeders they should break the 7TB collection in multiple torrents, as I think most people don't have 7TB to spare
Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
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Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#322If they are looking for seeders they should break the 7TB collection in multiple torrents, as I think most people don't have 7TB to spare
If it's not a compressed archive, you can always just download part of it.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
He said "If you as a private person own a patent, you are losing it anyways...because you cannot fight some mega corporation in court to defend it. It's too expensive, and the biggest corps just take what they want due to having more financial resources" IOW he didn't say what you claim. Plus he gave no way forward to achieve his goals, and am I not in any position right now to Bring Down The Man, much as The Man may…
Within the larger context of this thread, the intent was clear. You yourself were responding to a post that gives this necessary context: Intellectual property is absurd and evil. The poster you reply to tells you why it is absurd and evil. Those two things together lead you naturally to the conclusion that it must be abolished. As such, I would say what they said is absolutely what I claimed. I just explained it in…
> Intellectual property is absurd and evil
I don't agree, just the excessive enforcement of it may well be.
> The fact that you summarised "this system must be destroyed" as "hopeless" says something
No. What I said was:
> hopeless valueless post.
The post was valueless because it gives no direction, no means. And I detest such posts because they offer nothing useful. They are unconstructive. Hence are valueless.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
While that is not fundamentally impossible, Star Citizen is so far the only crowdfunded thing I know that managed to collect AAA-game levels of money. Pretty much everything else isn't making nearly enough to actually finance the project and requires more funding outside of the crowdfunding. Furthermore, a lot of successful crowdfunding is build up on prior copyrighted work. People spend money on Star Citizen because…
You can't look at current crowdfunding levels in a world where the crowdfunded product is the exclusive "IP" of those receiving the money and then assume that tells you anything about a different world where there is no copyright and pre-funding creators is the only way to get new content of a certain scale. Or in other words: you're arguing that not having copyright would not work in a world built around copyright.
There's quite a bit of crowdfunded open content. It just tends to not work as well for the most costly to produce kinds of content.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
There should be a fine line in intellectual property rights. I see where you are coming from - quite often intellectual property is used a a moat to protect insane revenues and, as a repercussion, delay or slowdown our progress as humanity. But it is also use to protect unique creator revenue and encourage to create more. If you ask where the fine line should be I have no immediate answer, but abolishing intellectual…
> But it is also use to protect unique creator revenue and encourage to create more. This thinking is an artifact of an economic system so dependent on scarcity for its motivation that it is now generating most of the scarcity in the world. We now have the technology for creative implementations of "From each according to its ability, to each according to its needs". Just keep track of how much each thing is used, an…
Well said. The reality is that even in our current work without copyrigh a lot of value is added by creators who never see any real reward for it. Yet instead looking at how we can better reward creators we continue with continue with this insane system that has been shown be easily abused to concentrate wealth while having a massive cost for society by restricting what we all do and making everyone pay for enforcing those restrictions.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine getting rid of it completely would have good effects, as it would make any large scale production impossible. You might still get a few blog post, but getting books produced will be tricky and something big like a movie might be outright impossible. This is doubly true in the modern digital world were everything can be copied in a fraction of a second and where the piracy site, not the authors, will b…
> something in the realm of 20 years should be enough. God no. Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame. Not just movies, but TV series, books, theatre, musicals, ... Sure, copyright should be shortened, but I don't begrudge (eg.) a one hit winner making money off their hit decades layer. Life of artist is reasonable, I think. They take a gamb…
> Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame
That's exactly what we are getting right now though. Looking at the top ten of the box office right now, only three are not part of an existing franchise. Three of them are reboots of 80s movies, four if you count comic books. Large IP holders recognize under the current system, it is much more profitable to exploit their existing IP than to come up with new concepts. If the copyright terms were significantly shorter, the pressure to be original would be far higher.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine getting rid of it completely would have good effects, as it would make any large scale production impossible. You might still get a few blog post, but getting books produced will be tricky and something big like a movie might be outright impossible. This is doubly true in the modern digital world were everything can be copied in a fraction of a second and where the piracy site, not the authors, will b…
> something in the realm of 20 years should be enough. God no. Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame. Not just movies, but TV series, books, theatre, musicals, ... Sure, copyright should be shortened, but I don't begrudge (eg.) a one hit winner making money off their hit decades layer. Life of artist is reasonable, I think. They take a gamb…
> Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame. Not just movies, but TV series, books, theatre, musicals, ...
We are getting these things anyway, except that the originals are far less accessible than they should be. Entertainment trends are cyclical.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine getting rid of it completely would have good effects, as it would make any large scale production impossible. You might still get a few blog post, but getting books produced will be tricky and something big like a movie might be outright impossible. This is doubly true in the modern digital world were everything can be copied in a fraction of a second and where the piracy site, not the authors, will b…
> something in the realm of 20 years should be enough. God no. Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame. Not just movies, but TV series, books, theatre, musicals, ... Sure, copyright should be shortened, but I don't begrudge (eg.) a one hit winner making money off their hit decades layer. Life of artist is reasonable, I think. They take a gamb…
I think 30 years is a decent base in my mind. Let it be renewed a couple times for an extra years if the owners think it’s worth it. That way most stuff flows into the public domain but some works can keep creating value for their creator.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know of a good FOSS alternative for google books that could be self-hosted (for personal library)?
Does Calibre fit the bill? The program itself is great, but it supports a plugin system that really puts it over the top. One of them automagically strips off Adobe DRM for any book loaded in to it. https://calibre-ebook.com/
Seems that with calibre-web[1] we can have nice web front-end. But it doesn't have full-text search inside the content of the books though, unlike google books.
Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
#330Is there a set of magent links? Seems a bit OTT having to log in to tor to get the torrents when they could be DHT.