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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't follow. The Internet Archive only allows 1 copy of each physical book to be loaned at a time. If someone has the book you want already, then you need to wait until their loan expires. It's not like shadow libraries that allow unrestricted DRM-free downloading.

    And publishers' profits are rising and don't seem to be at all correlated to library access, so of course nobody is suggesting they should close.

    What am I not understanding?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    During the pandemic, Internet Archive very publicly announced they were relaxing their one physical copy per digitally loaned copy.

    I think of they had maintained their 1:1 CDL method, the publishers would still be uncomfortable to be the one to sue first, especially since there was a decent argument and IA would have been pretty sympathetic.

    Their pandemic policy was effectively not substantially different from a shadow library., and just set up a slam dunk case for the publishers.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.

    Public libraries are under assault from every direction.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)

    https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4

    https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

    Pretty soon you either won't find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.

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