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

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unrushed233@lemmings.world
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Definitely won’t find these books on Anna’s Archive /s

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Bull205@sh.itjust.works
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This is cool. Thank you for sharing

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unrushed233@lemmings.world
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It’s really cool. I learned about it from the megathread: https://rentry.co/megathread-books#annas-archive

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Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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It would be a shame if another website pop up and uploaded these removed book to it and call it, idk, Internet Alexandria or something.

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blindsight@beehaw.org
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I dunno. I think there are enough things named after men.

Maybe a nice neutral woman’s name… Like, Anna?

And it’s more about preservation and archival, so I think it should be called an Archive, not a library.

Yeah, Anna’s Archive. Great name. Let’s go with that one.

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Titou@sh.itjust.works
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Would be a shame if they decided to call it something with the letter z and the word library in it

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layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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It’s great that these projects already exist

but it hurts accessibility that you need to be “in the know” to find out about it.

every media outlet has to mention WayBackMachine; it’s such a great outreach and legitimizing

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istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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wait until you hear about libgen

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DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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You can’t delete what was already destroyed!

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istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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Modern version of barbarians burning the library of Alexandria.

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Truck_kun@beehaw.org
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This only makes me favor copyright reform more. Should really cut that down to 25 years or less; anything from before the 21st century should be public domain by now.

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renard_roux@beehaw.org
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How about ‘artist’s death’, full stop?

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neutronst4r@beehaw.org
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How about ‘artists natural death’, full stop?

We wouldn’t want to get any funny ideas, would we?

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renard_roux@beehaw.org
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Much better, very good detail 😅

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dillekant@slrpnk.net
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Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.

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zabadoh@ani.social
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Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.

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dillekant@slrpnk.net
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Writers give publishers legitimacy. Publishers will regularly pull the writers out to trot out some “copyright is important” line.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Printers*

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