Post Aj1lMWaIbcjbgXaF1M by arcturax@chitter.xyz
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(DIR) Post #Aj1YxIxKwLPWjBZDcW by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
2024-06-17T16:22:41Z
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More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/
(DIR) Post #Aj1YxKBuLef0YfOMyG by Inginsub@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-17T16:32:56.739331Z
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@internetarchive make a torrent
(DIR) Post #Aj1ZJuXFtxaleI9Bc8 by not_benis@cawfee.club
2024-06-17T16:37:47.685552Z
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@internetarchive I can't read
(DIR) Post #Aj1Zdcx2zKJWu9c2TI by anonicus@shitposter.world
2024-06-17T16:31:03.198506Z
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@internetarchive IA, I love you and I use your site. But you done goofed up and I hope you don't do what you did again going forward.
(DIR) Post #Aj1ZdeMFl64RGcPgOm by sun@shitposter.world
2024-06-17T16:34:27.824558Z
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@anonicus @internetarchive I love internet archive and I'm a donator but yeah they were never going to win this
(DIR) Post #Aj1ZdfC0efTFr8d14S by icedquinn@blob.cat
2024-06-17T16:36:25.079752Z
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@sun @internetarchive @anonicus if i were the judge i would tell the copyright holders to consider fucking themselves with rusty nailbats tbh
(DIR) Post #Aj1k0TGc9xhh4TIRN2 by koteisaev@mastodon.online
2024-06-17T18:04:51Z
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@internetarchive sound as #torrents and #p2p2 will thrive, as soon it will be single way to get access to books in general.
(DIR) Post #Aj1k0u3QZ6CM9OKn44 by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2024-06-17T16:30:50Z
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@internetarchive change domicile and reupload?
(DIR) Post #Aj1l2dUfCybFK0SpYO by vibia@girlcock.club
2024-06-17T18:43:04Z
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@internetarchive It fucking sucks. Imagine if the civilization that comes after us can't access a lot of our information and arts because the companies copystriked them before the meteor hit.
(DIR) Post #Aj1lMWaIbcjbgXaF1M by arcturax@chitter.xyz
2024-06-17T17:57:22Z
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@internetarchive the problem with open letters is they are open to just throw them away and not care. We need fundamental change. Corps can embargo works for a century or more under current copyright law. We need a change. Anything more than 50 years should become public domain no matter what it is. To ask for longer is just pure greed.
(DIR) Post #Aj1m70YrU81Dyf4mu0 by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-06-17T18:49:10Z
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@internetarchive Are these books not available in local libraries? And if any of your books are from living authors, those folk need to pay bills, so how are you addressing that?
(DIR) Post #Aj1nHO72sOSXs2ZwdU by kcoyle@mstdn.social
2024-06-17T18:52:38Z
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@internetarchive There is so much variety in the thing we call "book" and what is covered (uniformly) by (c). In the Google Books project, many academic authors stated they wanted their books to be available, even for free. And in some instances, factual books have been shown to warrant less protection than fiction. We need a revision of (c) that is more realistic and also that actually promotes science and the useful arts.
(DIR) Post #Aj1oWdIenCHtGrqL7A by matera@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-06-17T19:14:10Z
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@internetarchive Server's having a bad hair day - takes a couple tries, but I got'er. 😜
(DIR) Post #Aj1pST0ZDOYW9CxWmO by katthernandez@mastodon.social
2024-06-17T19:26:08Z
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@internetarchive Signed!
(DIR) Post #Aj1rr6fdbPng162weu by seano@masto.nyc
2024-06-17T16:45:05Z
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@internetarchive is there a way to see the list of 500,000 books?
(DIR) Post #Aj1xH7h2vEWyULvjhQ by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2024-06-17T21:01:09Z
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@internetarchivehttps://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/110933665484508536
(DIR) Post #Aj1zy53ymCG4gxGi1Y by Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social
2024-06-17T21:30:57Z
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@internetarchive peeps ☝️ first they came for .... unno the rest
(DIR) Post #Aj2AjGmC2mz6Ah5bLE by niceEli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-06-17T23:31:45Z
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@internetarchive honestly sad that this happened
(DIR) Post #Aj2L1grQng6dpDxgrg by Boolysteed@noauthority.social
2024-06-18T01:24:54Z
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@internetarchive #InfoSec #MemoryHole
(DIR) Post #Aj2LesWXN5FxI6sJfM by pteranodo@mastodon.social
2024-06-18T01:34:43Z
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@internetarchive I’m sorry, but the Lending Library itself goes against the best spirit of IA. These are hundreds-year-old books in the PD.
(DIR) Post #Aj2y8TuF2yvZvLw8Lg by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2024-06-17T16:38:07.987343Z
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@internetarchive To be honest, it's not necessarily a bad thing that less people are being induced to run proprietary malware that implements digital handcuffs for the "loan" anti-feature.If you choose to share a book, it should be shared without handcuffs.
(DIR) Post #Aj2y8V7OXZ2jgR69UO by uis@pone.social
2024-06-17T17:35:31Z
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Wasn't entire lawsuit about not having DRM?
(DIR) Post #Aj2y8VcEgtiHE5WmYq by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2024-06-18T08:50:14.618777Z
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@uis I believe the lawsuit was about their lending scheme, where they would "loan" out copies of books they owned (which were still restricted by copyright), one at a time (although during the lockdown they removed the temporary "one copy" limit), for a limited time and then that copy would be deleted - enforced via digital handcuffs.I don't believe the authors of such books had any complaints about such copies being made (many now long dead) - the lawsuit was filed by publishers (who most of the time demand that authors surrender their copyright and only care about what profits they imagine they're going to get by restricting books) and it was presumably about how any copies of the books were being made at all - but I'm sure they were somewhat relieved that the copies were handcuffed.The internet archive also has copies of books now in the public domain and those can be downloaded without handcuffs.
(DIR) Post #Aj3N1WmeRohZfxARCi by ThankGodItsFriday@social.vivaldi.net
2024-06-18T13:24:17Z
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@internetarchive What should publishers do next? Ban libraries?I think the real issue is that they're afraid of digital works being stolen by unscrupulous individuals who would try to "hack the system", as it were, like keeping an overdue book from the library. Thing is, they don't know how this works - if a book is overdue at a library, you can't get more books until you return the overdue book. Same as with the Archive's own library, and even though I don't "check out" works from the Archive (I usually try to find the free-to-keep-forever stuff for my purposes), I can't imagine Archive not implementing a similar system to prevent digital theft.Even so, just to be blunt, copyright sucks. Companies have been abusing their copyright privileges for decades, and it's waaay past time it was stopped for good.
(DIR) Post #AjBYOUTj5MvSVw3nbU by Jennifer@bookstodon.com
2024-06-22T12:09:02Z
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@internetarchive if you want to read one of those book, check it out from a library that actually paid the author for the book, or buy it. Authors don't write books as a charity project and deserve to be paid for their work unless they give it away for free.
(DIR) Post #AjE9fCGM9JqZYvYWES by Bluedepth@mastodon.social
2024-06-23T18:16:42Z
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@internetarchive @paninid They will only care when it is more profitable for them to behave that way. Cries and pleading to the contrary will land on deaf ears. They are in it for a profit. Nothing else will do. If it doesn’t stroke their greed, they have zero interest.
(DIR) Post #AjHqDxn6j448Mb10EK by maxalmonte14@indiehackers.social
2024-06-25T12:57:22Z
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@internetarchive give us the list and let's start pirating the hell outta those books!
(DIR) Post #AjIkRHp79UZFgrsqAa by pteranodo@mastodon.social
2024-06-25T23:27:15Z
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@internetarchive I’ll say again that the LL goes against the best spirit of IA. A library holding on to PD works and titrating access to them serves the same function as museums who make Wikipedia afraid to use 200-yo portraits in bios of famous people.
(DIR) Post #AjKO6mtHNi6vkcxQ2K by rrb@allthingstech.social
2024-06-26T18:25:55Z
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@internetarchive @joncamfield But if people start reading books they could start thinking. If current events show us anything, it is that no one wants people to think.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNhVdwNzPO9ITBY by dalias@hachyderm.io
2024-06-26T00:14:12Z
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@hipsterelectron @ireneista Getting a VPS anonymously in a jurisdiction that you DGAF about to run your torrents and logging into it over Tor seems like the safest option that's currently practical.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNigfYsP52dSn0i by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2024-06-26T00:28:36.920899Z
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@dalias @ireneista @hipsterelectron Anonymous payment to those has kept getting more complicated.It also puts a hard limit on participation for those that can't justify the overhead of anonymous payments.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNjipiJjEFdU21Q by Qbitzerre@unbound.social
2024-06-26T10:48:10Z
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@lispi314 @ireneista @hipsterelectron @dalias recommendations?
(DIR) Post #AjKbNkNxFQccJAis7M by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2024-06-26T18:23:18.175691Z
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@Qbitzerre @dalias @ireneista For anonymous payment?Zcash (which practically no one takes nor uses, so even just acquiring it will be a flag), Monero (I'm doubtful its security won't be compromised in the long term, I don't think anything is backed by proofs) or GNU Taler (which last I checked no one supports, but it otherwise also benefits from sound mathematical background like Zcash's zk-snark and doesn't have any of the cryptocurrency environment concerns).So in practical terms you're basically left with money in a security enveloppe or Monero.Privately acquiring Monero is itself a shitshow, and the best option at this point is peer-to-peer exchanges and a few intermediate transfers thereafter for obfuscation (which is subject to Monero's eventual failure, of course).You certainly could say the situation is disappointing.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNl2inrEQLbnQf2 by hyc@mastodon.social
2024-06-26T20:40:05Z
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@lispi314 @ireneista @dalias @Qbitzerre re: Monero you're speaking from absolute ignorance. Monero's underlying technologies are all established, proven crypto primitives. Monero stealth addresses are built on Diffie-Hellman key exchange, no one is breaking those. Monero RingCT has been peer reviewed in a number of journals.https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/321To say its security lacks formal proofs is simply false, although you could accurately make that assertion about Zcash.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNll296g2Z2WojI by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2024-06-26T20:58:23.028228Z
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@hyc @Qbitzerre @dalias @ireneista > Monero stealth addresses are built on Diffie-Hellman key exchange, no one is breaking those.Yet (to public knowledge). Though my expectation of breakage is for it to come down to some nonobvious implementation issue of some sort, rather than a fundamental cryptographic security problem (which admittedly is also a problem with all the other options I mentioned).> https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098> https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/321> To say its security lacks formal proofs is simply false, although you could accurately make that assertion about Zcash. I do have to revise some of my statement, I had to refresh my memory on a few things. Both monero's security and zero-knowledge proofs' security rely on computational hardness, which I find rather less reassuring that something based on mathematical truths (since certain changes to computer technology could drastically reduce the effective security provided).So do consider my prior confidence in the latter withdrawn to a similar degree.
(DIR) Post #AjKbNmg6iuKZQ3EOgq by Tony@clew.lol
2024-06-26T21:00:19.614577Z
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thank you for another long detailed post about something I don’t understand at all.appreciate you and your dry posting 😎
(DIR) Post #AjKqvhZlhMOAkkthUe by danieljfranco1@noauthority.social
2024-06-26T23:49:28Z
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@internetarchive I support this cause/your lawsuit. However, I will not intentionally, willingly give my name, email address, and or any other info to Change.org again/any more.
(DIR) Post #AjM3VAGMQTFWT3SKQq by phb256@mastodon.social
2024-06-27T13:33:14Z
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@internetarchive I appreciate the effort to appeal to publishers, but wouldn't it be better to lobby Congress to amend copyright law to give libraries permission to engage in CDL?