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people were in a panic under lockdown here in urban California, and elsewhere. The whole of the Internet Archive is experimental and out-of-the-box.. It is beyo
by mistrial9 1y ago
people were in a panic under lockdown here in urban California, and elsewhere. The whole of the Internet Archive is experimental and out-of-the-box.. It is beyond unjust to watch corporate data hoarders profit at large while IA gets excoriated by fellow "smarty" people. IA is wonderful in their weird ways.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> beyond unjust to watch corporate data hoarders profit at large while IA gets excoriated by fellow "smarty" people. IA is wonderful in their weird ways I love the Archive. And as I said above, I'm not fundamentally against uncontrolled lending as a legal test case. But doing it with the entire catalogue, instead of just e.g. older books, and doing it out of the main organisation such that there is no legal segregation between the experiment and the entire project struck me as incredibly impulsive. They're wonderful and weird. But perhaps not the best steward of what's pitched as an archive.