Post AlgidstbRJrSiuZ3VA by bojkotiMalbona@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #Alg92vTdNpVFcP3jcW by dangillmor@mastodon.social
       2024-09-04T20:06:09Z
       
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       Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors. The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
       
 (DIR) Post #AlgidstbRJrSiuZ3VA by bojkotiMalbona@infosec.exchange
       2024-09-05T08:42:32Z
       
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       @dangillmor This further reinforces what #RMS has been saying for over 20 years, which essentially boils down to: #ebooks enable publishers to bring the shrink-wrap licensing terms of software to books for the purpose of disempowering consumers.Stallman was right, again.But I must say it’s hard to derive much sympathy for #InternetArchive considering they are censoring the #deCloudflare project, perhaps as a consequence of their partnership with #Cloudflare.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlgiguA3Bx87W4hKbI by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2024-09-05T08:50:02.555823Z
       
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       @dangillmor They could have avoided all this if they just said nigger.