Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
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Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.
The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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Evan Light (looking for work)replied to Dan Gillmor last edited by
@dangillmor in the US, damn near everything resolves down to everyone insisting, "Show me the money." Sadly, we've lost that internet of the early oughts where people would gladly share their ideas freely.
Now platforms like medium, substack, YouTube, et al are all about "monetization". Nearly everything of worth is now hidden behind some sort of paywall or other dark patterns.
We could have had an online library of Alexandria. Instead, we have all of these digital fortresses where intellectual property owners hide their property.
It's all, sadly, very Cyberpunk. @GreatDismal et al called it.