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

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The outcome was completely obvious, and I blame Internet Archive for poking this bear. They had no reason to do this, and they are putting their actual core mission at risk in the process.

    • Ret2libsanity@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      Yeah internet archive is fucking stupid for this.

      And they sold access to the books they stole via a subscription? I mean… yeah. That’s gonna get you sued

      • LiberalSoCalist@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Where was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.