xuxebiko@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoInternet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implicationstheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1579arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up1571arrow-down1external-linkInternet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implicationstheconversation.comxuxebiko@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down6·10 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareRet2libsanitycakelinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down7·10 months agoYeah 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
minus-squareLiberalSoCalist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoWhere was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.
Well, shit.
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.
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
Where was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.