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> there's too much for us to lose at this point Feeling entitled?
by jampekka 2y ago
> there's too much for us to lose at this point
Feeling entitled?
- IntelMiner 2y agoOnly if you don't care about history
- jampekka 2y agoBooks are not part of history?
- lolinder 2y ago"Us" means all of humankind for hopefully many generations to come. It's not about my personal entitlement, it's that the IA serves a vital role for humanity (one which they fought hard to make permissible).
- jampekka 2y agoIf it's so important to us, perhaps we should support it then? The discussion around IA nowadays seems a lot like random users ranting at open source maintainers in Github issues.
- mrguyorama 2y agoIA is sooooo important we can't even undo the clusterfuck that is the disney-bought copyright system. The black woman on the bus refusing to give up her seat was also 100% legally obviously in the wrong. IA lost not because what they were doing was morally wrong, but because each and every one of us continually refuses to agitate for the kind of change that would benefit the world. If you want the public to have a library, you must enshrine that library's right to exist and operate in law, or it will never survive legal challenges from IP holders. Physical libraries would never be allowed to exist in modern America, not without 100 years of precedence of the first sale doctrine. You can bet your ass disney would have tried to kill such a thing. Freely watch our movies? No chance.