The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

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These publishers' names are:
Hachette,
Penguin Random House,
Wiley,
and
HarperCollins
Time to never buy any book from them again. I'm moving on to pirating ebooks and audiobooks. Sorry JRR and Christopher Tolkien (may you rest in peace), but I'm not buying any more of your books because they were published by HarperCollins. And I'm also not buying a lot of other books too.
- I really appreciate the sentiment, but sadly: Individual boycots that aren't attached to a concertated campaign sadly don't work. Pirate away, but you can be certain that these publishers don't know that you exist.
  
  I would argue this is actually one of the most effective ways to respond. If enough people do it then the company has to react somehow (by pivoting, etc.). Obviously an organized effort would be better, but the "vote with your money" method isn't anything to ridicule.
  
  That's why after you welcome yourself to the torrent world, you should introduce two others.
  
  you can be certain that these publishers don’t know that you exist
  I think it's better this way.
  
  Maybe, but I am boycotting all capitalist entities the best I can. If I need something I try to buy used or from worker co-ops or to check it out from a library or pirate it.
- To be honest, I don't think the Tolkien Estate needs our patronage.
- And the judge name are: steven menashi, beth robinson, maria araujo kahn.
  Time to mail them bag of dick i guess?
the best thing to do is download and torrent to preserve humanity's wealth in knowledge otherwise we risk losing immeasurable treasures to the sands of time
Personal recommendation:
qBittorrent
Repo
Licensed under: GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0
- https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile
  
  can someone ELI5 what this is, exactly? A program to run on your computer that helps out the Internet Archive? How exactly is it helpful for the Internet Archive?
  
  licenseless? 🤔
  these sorts of things tend to sketch me out but giving a +1 as someone smarter than me will know if this is trustworthy
On the other hand, authors have a right to be compensated in connection with the copying and distribution of their original creations.
No author lose any compensation, only publisher. Publisher not have that right.
A sad day for pro-preservation advocates
Direct link to the court document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf
- Another link from arstechnica: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hachette-v-Internet-Archive-Second-Circuit-Appeals-Court-Decision-9-4-2024.pdf
I would like to see these publishers take on OpenAI, Midjourney and others, who basically said that copyright laws should not apply to them because AI would be "impossible" without them having free access to everything.
- I wish people would stop comparing those uses of copyright to nonprofits like Internet Archive
  While I understand AI training exemptions to copyright are controversial, and think most people here would side with IA on ebook lending.
They should move out of US and keep doing it anyway.
"Just" lost it? I could have sworn I saw this news days ago, but "just" makes me feel like this happened minutes ago
- To be fair the post was 2 days old when you posted
  
  Alls fair in love and posting on the internet

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