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Why do they need to grant access for people to use copies of books they don’t own?
by _vqpz 1y ago
Why do they need to grant access for people to use copies of books they don’t own?
- JohnLocke4 1y agoNot to rationalize it, but it appears that they're gatekeeping the dataset to get access to the OCR-scans from the people they choose to share it with. This is to improve their existing service by making the content of books (and not just their title/tags) searchable. As per the blog post: >What does Anna’s Archive get out of it? Full-text search of the books for its users.
- _vqpz 1y agoFair enough, it just seems like they're painting an even bigger target on their backs by restricting access to copyrighted material they don't own the rights to
- est 1y ago> The books from Duxiu have long been pirated on the Chinese internet. Usually they are being sold for less than a dollar by resellers. They are typically distributed using the Chinese equivalent of Google Drive, which has often been hacked to allow for more storage space Ownership laundering.