[HN Gopher] Internet Archive: The Fight Continues
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       Internet Archive: The Fight Continues
        
       Author : gardenfelder
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-03-27 15:56 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | retrocryptid wrote:
       | I've always wanted to have a legit reason to say "!La Lucha
       | Continua!" -- I'm enough of a techno-anarcho-marxist to be happy
       | the archive isn't completely giving up.
        
       | musicale wrote:
       | If they win at the highest level, then at least we'll have
       | clarity that format shifting from analog to digital is legal for
       | library collections.
       | 
       | But the notion of "lending" ebooks seems about as meaningful as
       | "lending" bits. What seems to happen in practice is that ebook
       | bits are encrypted and transmitted to reading devices, and then
       | some sort of onerous DRM system restricts the number of
       | simultaneous readers.
       | 
       | If they lose at the highest level, perhaps it will provide some
       | incentive for copyright law reform.
        
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