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submitted 1 year ago by xuxebiko@kbin.social to c/world@lemmy.world

The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

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[-] srasmus@lemmy.world 220 points 1 year ago

I hope all the writers who support this lawsuit understand that they are contributing to a long standing effort to outlaw libraries in general. Nobody makes direct money off of sharing things. Get ready for DRM involved in every single thing that you do.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People at the internet archive literally gave away all the books they had in the library for free to as many people who wanted them, basically pretending they had a right to copy the books as many times as they desired as long as it was under the guise of being a library.

Not only did they deserve to lose this case, they displayed such arrogant weaponized stupidity in making that decision that I'm surprised they weren't trying to screw themselves over.

The internet archive is awesome, their decision in 2020 was fucking stupid

[-] srasmus@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

I agree it was stupid. I just know that media companies are foaming at the mouth to use this decision to destroy online lending all together. And many writers are being tricked into thinking this will somehow help them. It won't. This will help Amazon. People renting your book from the internet archive is not why you're failing to make money.

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