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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)

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[+] [email protected] -116 points 4 months ago (58 children)

Which IA failed to do, which is why they got sued, and why they can’t lend those publishers’ books at all anymore.

I have no sympathy.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 4 months ago (42 children)

Just want to let you know why you're being downvoted. It's not because you're wrong. From a legal perspective you're right. This court case was decided this way because you're right.

But that last line about having no sympathy. There's a meme for this.

"You're not wrong. You're just an asshole."

[+] [email protected] -47 points 4 months ago (24 children)

Isn’t it “asshole” to consume copyrighted works for free?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not for over half a century, once Disney lobbied the US federal government to extend temporary monopolies to egregious lengths. The point of intellectual property rights is to build a robust public domain, so every year of every extension is a year denied to the public.

This has been forgotten or ignored by the ownership class with Sony and Nintendo prosecuting use and public archival abandonware games the way Disney goes after nursery murals.

So no, we would be better off with no IP laws all than the current laws we have, and the ownership class routinely screw artists, developers and technicians for their cut of their share of the profits in what is known as Hollywood Accounting. And the record labels will cheat any artist or performer who doesn't have a Hammerhead Lawyer (or bigger) to ensure their contract is kosher.