Ernie SmithThe irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
d@nny disc@ mc²@ernie why is it extinction-level?
“Near extinction-level”
1) The proposed fines in the case ($150,000 per title) would have bankrupted the organization, though it was eventually narrowed down to 127 titles
2) Legal filings are expensive
3) They’ve had to remove a lot of content already
@ernie didn't realize the fines, thanks a ton
Sci-Fi GirlAre the archives of internet pages in danger too? (Genuinely wondering.)