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One thing IA has going for them at least is that even though some material they have cannot be online and viewable by anyone, you can physically access their lo
by capableweb 4y ago
One thing IA has going for them at least is that even though some material they have cannot be online and viewable by anyone, you can physically access their location and get access to any and all of the content, DMCA strikes be damned or not. Thanks to their library status if I'm not mistaken.
- MetaWhirledPeas 4y agoWhat if all lawyers were physicists too? We send electricity and light over wires and fibers to transfer the data using physics, thereby we are physically transferring the data.
- karmakaze 4y agoWould matter replicators count?
- capableweb 4y agoI think the argument is around accessibility and ability to copy it. If it's available from your home, everyone could easily access it and also easily copy it. If you have to go to a dedicated computer, at a physical location (California, US no less), basically only a small percentage of people actually have access to it, and are more or less unable to copy things at a grand scale.