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And what’s worse is at the same time shadow libraries like Z-Lib and LibGen became popular. If they had left the copyright infringement to shadow libraries, may
by tourmalinetaco 2y ago
And what’s worse is at the same time shadow libraries like Z-Lib and LibGen became popular. If they had left the copyright infringement to shadow libraries, maybe making a blog post saying you totally shouldn’t go there because free books are evil and they have a full archive of our books for free, then the same thing would have happened, that is free full access to books on a wide scale, with minimal legal pushback for IA via genuinely vile publishers looking to hoard IP they should have lost decades ago.
- startupsfail 2y agoAgreed, but what’s done is done. Many organizations were making weird calls at the chaos of the moment. It’s good to give a slap on the wrists and establish boundaries. But at some point, there is such thing as forgiveness. And it’d be terrible if the Internet Archive would be shut down. If this is to happen, I’m sure that anyone who used the Wayback Machine or watched Back To The Future :) would reserve very special place in their personal hell for Hatchette. And it is easy to punish Hatchette Book Group. Just don’t keep their books. Return the books within 30, return them on Audible, or sell used for fifty cents on Amazon.
- BizarroLand 2y agoThat's the painful beauty of hindsight being 20/20. There is a world where IA became listed as a digital library and maybe had to comply with some arcane rules in order to operate but had otherwise escaped relatively unscathed from this incident. Maybe we missed it on this pass but there's always a chance we could get another.