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It's not in danger of ceasing to exist. http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/ http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/ This ca
by sp332 4y ago
It's not in danger of ceasing to exist. http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/ http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.
That said, hard drives are cheap again, and you can just go download the collections from the Archive that are interesting or important to you. However, the raw data from their own Wayback scrapes are not publicly available.
- csense 4y agoI'm worried the outcome of the lawsuit will be: Judge: Copyright infringement, guilty, pay up, $2 billion. IA: Your Honor, our balance sheet only has $100 million. Judge: Okay, then here's a court order. All your money now belongs to your victims. Terminate all staff salaries, contractor agreements, and vendor payments including your cloud hosting accounts. Auction off all your physical hard drives and servers. Do it in 30 days. If you don't, the police will come to your offices with guns and do it for you. They'll also arrest your staff and send them to jail for contempt of court and stealing your victims' money.
- sp332 4y agoIs anyone asking for that though?