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The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah internet archive is fucking stupid for this.

And they sold access to the books they stole via a subscription? I mean… yeah. That’s gonna get you sued

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Where was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.