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   Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 15:06:28 JST Brewster Kahle

   Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006.

   Who benefits?

   https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

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     zeruch (zeruch@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 15:06:29 JST zeruch

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     @brewsterkahle The RIAA (and MPAA) were clients of mine when I worked in "anti-piracy" (a categorically broken and/or stupid industry if ever there was one) and the petty, reactionary, scrooge on meth personalities there were utter gobshite on a good day...good days were rare.

     They are utter turd-tsunamis.

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     Stephen Collins (trib@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 19:12:20 JST Stephen Collins

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     @brewsterkahle what kind of arseholes sue The Internet Archive? Oh, wait, it's music industry lawyers working for the labels. Of course.

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     That Anonymous Coward (that_ac@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 19:12:45 JST That Anonymous Coward

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     @brewsterkahle

     Their lawyers.

     "The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.""

     Anyone watched Willow (tv series) this week oh wait that was a tax write off.

     Because the archive exists, there will be no market for their "remasters" meant to extend the copyrights another 150 years because you call it a remaster & restart the clock.

     Just happy the artists will be paid... oh wait...

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     C₆H₁₂O₆ (c6h12o6@pfalz.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 19:12:49 JST C₆H₁₂O₆

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     @brewsterkahle Records are subversive anyway as they don’t provide recurring revenue streams. A concept like „buy once and listen as often as you like“ is a dangerous idea and people shouldn’t be reminded something like that ever existed. 😈

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     rrwo (rrwo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 21:49:41 JST rrwo

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     @brewsterkahle

     Why "the Washington lawyers" instead of "music companies"? The lawsuit was also filed in New York, not Washington.

     The last time I heard someone use "Washington lawyers" was an antisemitic dog-whistle.

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     Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 21:50:25 JST Brewster Kahle

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     A 78rpm record every hour from the Great78Project-- really a threat? https://mastodon.archive.org/@great78

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