The Internet Archive Is Losing Its Lawsuit...

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Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what appears to be the appeal on the Internet Archive lawsuit tanking because of a mistake made years ago. These lawsuits are being brought by some of the largest media companies and all of them threaten one of the greatest inventions of all time. Thanks for watching! …...more
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It's been 12 years since the last meaningful protest we organized on the internet. It's time to wake up.
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If Internet Archive loses, this is where free information ends.
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if this goes down we are losing one giant chunk of the entire internet i fucking hate this
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You know what NO. Fuck these lawsuits and FUCK the wants of big media. Everyone start archiving EVERYTHING. WE KEEP REMAKING THE INTERNET ARCHIVE UNTIL THEY GIVE UP.
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Some things people should remember: 1: The BBC recorded over the original Doctor Who seasons because they were taking space. To this day, the early seasons of Doctor Who have not been recovered in full. 2: Runescape, yes, RUNESCAPE, was almost lost to time because they had no save backups, and it is only through sheer luck and willpower that we even have OSRS, let alone the dataminers giving us a glimpse into unused and unrecovered content. 3: These "licence holders" can revoke that licence at any time. Anything you have that's digital can be taken away from you at a moments notice without compensation.
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No,not the Internet Archive! So many older-treasures will be lost !!!
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absolutely evil.... the fact that there are people actively trying to destroy such an important archive for their own personal benefit and the law not only lets it happen but encourages it disgusts me people like that are in the way of actual progress and should be ignored
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If we lose the internet archive I would equate it to the burning of Alexandria. Edit: All of you goobers need to chill out. It may or may not be a myth but my point was the amount of sheer history and potential knowledge that would lost would be substantial much like a potentially mythical library in a time when most knowledge wasn't written down.
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Meanwhile AI is freely mooching off copyrighted data with no permission
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>Dr Disrespect Streams again I sleep >Internet Archive is in trouble Real shit
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There should be a law stating that if a company refuses to provide access to a certain piece of past content be it a game or movie or even a book, they do not get to tell others not to provide access to said content
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Internet Archive also mentioned how publishers forced them to remove "1984" from their library. Coincidence? I think not!
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I won't lie, the Internet Archive's probably screwed since judges will NEVER side with them over publishers with infinitely more money and institutional privileges/rights, but I'm REALLY hoping they'll pull through somehow. Their mission is incredibly important, and I don't want to see greedy publishers take away rare/important books that they may or may not even be producing/selling anymore.
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This is downright scary, if the Internet Archive were to fall, much of our digital history will be wiped off the face of the Earth entirely! I get the arguments over copyrights too, but to delete history when the original rights owners have long pulled a piece of software from public access leaves a lot to be desired. We all need to do our part in supporting the Internet Archive and its quest to preserve our digital history.
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We can't let Companies get away with this. People who pirate stuff through Internet Archive is prob less than 1% and they are mad just because they're losing a tiny amount of money.
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We're gunna have to archive the Internet Archive
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Copyright Laws need amended.
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I can't believe this is happening but somehow it's okay for LLMs to be fed copyrighted data
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If buying the game is not owning it. Piracy isn't stealing.
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Here's the thing: Most people DO NOT pirate books off of IA because they're photoscans, not text files. People generally inspect older books and/or academic material.
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Here's hoping that some gigachad downloads the entire archive and makes a new one hosting out of some under regulated island or other country.
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Anyone reading this, back up something on the Internet Archive. Especially anything copyrighted, rare and niche. Even if you can only save one thing, that could be one thing that would have been lost.
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the copyright law needs to be reevaluated to account for the public good in cases of preservation.
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Their breaches of copyright law, no matter how unintentional, could result in the loss of an invaluable tool for internet users worldwide, not to mention the potential erasure of vast amounts of digital history.
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Imagine being so morally corrupt that you sue a non-profit that helps the world… Down with corporations.
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Someone needs to create a full backup of the Internet Archive. Data hoarders of the world: Now it's your time to shine.
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Copyright law needs to be updated, fast. It's pathetic how little it has changed since its execution.
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Personally, if these 'publishers' actually manage to take down IA, I will go out of my way, actively inconvenience myself just so I never purchase a single product they put out. I will pirate a book and pay the price of that book directly to the author.
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Realistically the law needs to be altered to allow for otherwise unavailable content (specific versions or realeases included) to be exempt from a dmca take take down or lawsuit. Its insane that we have no protection for lost media like we really should
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Internet Archive is a Library But the Internet Archive is classified as library in the US. Therefore it has some special rights to distribute media that would be otherwise not allowed to. Libraries have different rights as we "consumer" or any "company". I think that is forgotten sometimes in discussions like these.
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I'm mad at the publishers for pulling the trigger. But I'm also mad at whoever at the internet archive greenlit the over-lending of the digital books. Risking that site feels like something that wasn't considered in the decision making process at the IA.
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Tbh if you dont distribute your games/books/movies anymore they should be legaly free to distribute by 3rd parties as long as it is free
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Hosting stuff like this in the US was doomed from the start. Most good piracy sites are hosted in Russia since they don't care much about western IP laws.
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corporations can steal, lie, and cheat to make a profit, including stealing personal information to train AI models, yet the people can't have access to information for educational purposes. Sick society we live in
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If a company is no longer selling a product, it is not piracy if you get one yourself.
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Publishers to boycott: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC., HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS L.L.C., JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC,
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I think people are finally realized that copyright law. Is messed up
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it's insane we may potentially be living through a SECOND burning the library of alexandria but in modern time.
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Guess we'll need a backup of the Internet Archive in Russia, where they could give a crap about Copyright.
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"morally correct" Publishers: "We don't do that here."
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