hugoestr , vor 18 Tagen

@arstechnica my favorite move is removing old books from the internet, but not reprinting them, not even as electronic books

ag_tn21 , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica Greed is fully in charge as usual. Viewing through Internet Archive probably has minimal effect on actual sales.

Izng , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica @anildash Didn’t say how many terabytes or petabytes will be lost. Distributed storage protocols should be prepared shit like this happening, right? Right??

tomtrottel , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica this is so sad.

herrbischoff , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica If ensuring access to information means “pirating” stuff, it will be done. All this does is make things harder for regular folks with small incomes and will gradually radicalise them against publishers.

papageier , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica Point in case that a court decision can be perfectly correct and mindboggelingly stupid at the same time.

nicholas_saunders , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica is that library.lol or different?

glitzersachen , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica

Then, on the other side there is the library whose name you should not speak. Just mentioning it. Don't get any books there. It's verboten (= your betters, the publisher, lord over the public word, do NOT like and are not amused). Supposedly there is everything there, I know. It's tempting. But VERBOTEN.

Just wanted to remind people, so they don't inadvertently use the library whose name should not be spoken.

firecat , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica

Spiderman screaming NOOOOOOO as the few fog remains of his love one are disappearing into nothingness.

linkeddev , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica ugh

enoch_exe_inc , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica The #Resistance will live on in shadow libraries like #Libgen!

18+ glc , vor 19 Tagen

@arstechnica

Dismal. I hope the "first sale" doctrine is reinstated on appeal, and brought up to date either judicially or legislatively.

If we didn't already have libraries, they'd all be considered illegal at this point.