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Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (theconversation.com)

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

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 6 points 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.