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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Gonna do it anyway. Copyright isn’t real & you can’t enforce it.
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Commies take the W here. The internet is the closest to a post-scarcity economy* humanity has ever been and people are still being cucked by copyright![:marseyeyeroll: :marseyeyeroll:](/e/marseyeyeroll.webp)
* let’s be real, most severs could be run on peanuts a day if people weren’t optimizing for profit.
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There's a good book about this if anyone is interested:
Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information 1st Edition
by Sarah Lamdan
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WHO WOULD WIN:
OR
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Just go to libgen?
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publishers hate this one simple trick!!
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When I was in college my mom used to buy me Amazon gift cards for the price of all my books that I would keep and spend on other stuff cuz I’d just pirate the books lol
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Based neurodivergent commie
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Weird, I actually agree with you entirely for once even though I'm a lolbert
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