[HN Gopher] Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after p...
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       Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers'
       court win
        
       Author : cratermoon
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-06-21 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | TylerE wrote:
       | They should fire what even nitwit thought this obviously illegal
       | plan was a good idea in the first place. The fallout will likely
       | tank the entire archive in the long term.
        
         | ranger_danger wrote:
         | 90% of the "archive" is just mass piracy anyway
        
         | a1o wrote:
         | It was through lending, this was due to a change of policy of
         | lending during COVID-19 to ease access
        
           | TylerE wrote:
           | It lending done flagrantly in violation of the licensing.
           | They were taking a copy licensed to be lent ONCE and giving
           | it to thousands of people at once.
        
       | prmoustache wrote:
       | Archive.org looks a bit like astalavista these days.
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Recently discussed:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707084 (4 days ago, 48
       | comments)
        
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