Subj : Re: archive.org's legal problems
To   : Ogg
From : paulie420
Date : Mon May 13 2024 16:32:06

 Og> > In recent months the Internet Archive (archive.org) has been facing lega
 Og> > problems from trolls who do not accept archive.org's mission to archive
 Og> > everything on the Internet.  Archive.org is a very reputable project tha
 Og> > aims to not have the various sites on the net be lost to time. ...
 Og> 
 Og> I understand that the "problem" that archive.org is having is  
 Og> primarily because they were distributing copyrighted ebooks  
 Og> without permission.  That's not entirely a good thing to do.

It wasn't even the 'fact' that they were distributing (or - LOANING) eBooks out. For months and years that fact was OK w/ all involved - but, during Covid, when they changed it to NO LIMITS on how many people could doso at once - and offered them as actual DOWNLOADS instead of in-browser .PDFs that they piqued the interest from the copyright holders.

We aren't talking about any texts or books that currently bring in revenue - but they just poked the bear too much. And when they decided to open the flood gates they actually POSTED a blog post about how they were going to basically allow DOWNLOADS unlimited as opposed to offering in-browser LOANS to only 3 people at a time... I just can't understand why they did that; Covid wasn't some event that changed LAWS (LOL - at least in this situation...) but archive.org acted as if it were something more than it was IMO.



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