"Library of Alexandria had to be set on fire after publishers’ court win"

It would be useful to have a list of the missing books for reasons.

I'll see if i can find it.

But LLM's can copy anything.

As much as this sucks, it could have been so much worse. The Internet Archive stays up. It's important archives of things like industrial and educational films stay up. The Wayback Machine stays up.

So as disappointing as this is, I do have some relief because I thought it could mean the end.

"To the contrary, the decision barely mentions copyright's ultimate purpose of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts," it said.

It feels like the thoughts of the past came straight out of fiction. Today, nothing seems worth anything if you can't directly make money from it.

Crap I knew there was something I was supposed to do!

Understandable, but a huge bummer nevertheless

Publishers proceed not to buffalo buffalo buffalo sell half the books taken down anyway and eventually erase their own backups.

A sad and dark day.

Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive

So is there some kind of backup? Something that can be put back online after the apocalypse or something?

I know it's a dumb idea but imagine how fun it would be if there was no copyright