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Record Labels File $412M Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive
- boomboomsubban 3y agoDupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100140
- constantcrying 3y agoCopyright is so stupid.
- Maken 3y agoIf it's so stupid, how do they manage to get so many billions out of it?
- LocalH 3y agoThuggery and exploitation
- jasmer 3y ago[dead]
- constantcrying 3y agoThe concept that corporations can have control over the works of a long dead person and can claim damages for people archiving and distributing those works is stupid.
- rakoo 3y agoBeing rich is not the same as being intelligent
- decremental 3y ago[dead]
- taormina 3y agoSomething being stupid and something being technically not illegal are wildly orthogonal.
- behringer 3y agoGetting billions out of something doesn't make it smart.
- prepend 3y agoPeople get billions out of lots of dumb stuff. I’m reading the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and just heard a story how the toothpaste craze in the early 20th century was started by Pepsodent linking toothpaste to people feeling the film on their teeth. But this film isn’t bad and toothpaste doesn’t do anything to help with it. You can get rid of the film with anything, like eating an apple. It’s dumb that people would feel this film and want to use pepsodent to brush away the film. But they made billions. Lots of dumb things make money. Doesn’t mean they should. And certainly doesn’t mean they should to the limitation or destruction of other value (in this case maximalist copyright laws are endangering the preservation of culture).
- BaseballPhysics 3y agoNow this is the kind of high quality, well thought out, insightful commentary I look for on HN. Thank you for your contribution.
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- dehrmann 3y agoI read it in Butthead's voice. But to be fair, Beavis and Butthead were some of the greatest social commentators of the 90s.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y ago> I read it in Butthead's voice That right there is a violation of copyright. You are an immoral monster.
- zugi 3y agoThe U.S. Constitution authorizes copyright as a limited monopoly granted to authors and inventors, for a limited time, in order to promote progress in science and the useful arts. If copyright laws were still reasonable, like the original term of 14 years - renewable once for 14 more if the author is still alive - none of these 70+-year-old recordings would still be under copyright. A system that allows lawyers to bury old works 70+ years after they were created, by authors who are long since dead, is clearly out of control.
- imchillyb 3y agoWhen the metric-to-measure becomes the target, this is the type of silly real-world application we see.
- mitchbob 3y agohttps://archive.ph/2023.08.13-044622/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-412-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-1234806058/ https://archive.ph/2023.08.13-044622/https://www.rollingston...