Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA

This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we're fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.

the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they'll undoubtedly face in the future

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

It's called property. You buy a book. You don't get to copy it, but you get to show it to anyone you want.

[–] Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The only books I've paid for are the ones where the author explicitly allows copy and free distribution.

Well, those and the ones that get bundled with online access way back in uni.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

That's nice. But why? Do you not miss out on e.g. The Great Gatsby?

How many books have you paid for, and how many does a library have?

[–] Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Beyond missing the subtext...

I don't actually read all that much. I'm excruciatingly slow and i don't currently commute. Most of my reading was on public transit or camping. But the authors i like just happen to either be ok with sharing copies of their work or it's available for free anyways. That said I've bought maybe twenty books in the last decade...

Textbooks from exploitative publishers especially i refuse to pay for. E.g. Wiley, pearson, McGraw-Hill, etc... As well technical publications and journals.

The great Gatsby was provided by school when i read it. All the books were in my k-12. Most the students couldn't afford them.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 hour ago

And The Great Gatsby was brought to you by a library—your school's.

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