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Someone has to push the limits to see where they actually are. Now we know.
by jrockway 2y ago
Someone has to push the limits to see where they actually are. Now we know.
- jzb 2y agoWe knew. This was a dumb move on IA's part. I support the organization wholeheartedly, but it was a dumb and risky move. (They may be morally correct, but there was little if any doubt that they'd overstepped the legal bounds.)
- tptacek 2y agoThat's an overly simplistic way to look at this. Depending on the fact pattern you bring to a case, you will get different limits, which then apply to everyone later on regardless of their own fact patterns. IA took just about the worst possible fact pattern all the way to the 2nd Circuit for no discernible reason.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoNow we should fix those limits to be less broken.
- EarlKing 2y agoWe already knew what those limits were. This accomplished nothing other than endangering the internet archive by committing mass acts of copyright infringement. Ultimately, if he wanted to push the limits and get the law changed through judicial activism, he should've done it in his personal capacity rather than as a policy of the internet archive.