another tldr: Internet Archive thought scanning a copyrighted book was good enough to meet the transformative requirement for Fair Use and thus they could lend out digital copies at will
edit: Throw back to 4 days ago Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”
b-b-but there were no damages
… It is also irrelevant to assessing market harm ...
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Would be a shame if people just spammed copy righted material on the internet archive anyway![:marseyshrug: :marseyshrug:](/e/marseyshrug.webp)
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They have every SNES ROM and all of the MGS comics on archive.org, it's Chad country over there
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Seriously, there's a ton of niche hobbies that just have gigabytes of copywrited shit that if it wasn't on archive.org would just be gone.
It's totally illegal, Idk how people act like it's not. But I would hate for it to go away because people are too lazy/scared to upload it themselves
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There are a lot of things I don't like about the IA, but it would still be sad to see them go. Hate to sound like a redditor, but any closure of the Internet Archive would be like the internet equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
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