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   internetarchive (internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:33:59 JST internetarchive

   More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.

   Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

   👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:33:58 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @internetarchive make a torrent
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:34:28 JST Blurry Moon

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     • [Anonicus]
     @anonicus @internetarchive I love internet archive and I'm a donator but yeah they were never going to win this
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     [Anonicus] (anonicus@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:34:29 JST [Anonicus]

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     @internetarchive IA, I love you and I use your site. But you done goofed up and I hope you don't do what you did again going forward.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:36:26 JST iced depresso

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun @internetarchive @anonicus if i were the judge i would tell the copyright holders to consider fucking themselves with rusty nailbats tbh
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 01:38:12 JST 翠星石

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     @internetarchive To be honest, it's not necessarily a bad thing that less people are being induced to run proprietary malware that implements digital handcuffs for the "loan" anti-feature.
     
     If you choose to share a book, it should be shared without handcuffs.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 17:52:29 JST 翠星石

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     • uis
     @uis I believe the lawsuit was about their lending scheme, where they would "loan" out copies of books they owned (which were still restricted by copyright), one at a time (although during the lockdown they removed the temporary "one copy" limit), for a limited time and then that copy would be deleted - enforced via digital handcuffs.
     
     I don't believe the authors of such books had any complaints about such copies being made (many now long dead) - the lawsuit was filed by publishers (who most of the time demand that authors surrender their copyright and only care about what profits they imagine they're going to get by restricting books) and it was presumably about how any copies of the books were being made at all - but I'm sure they were somewhat relieved that the copies were handcuffed.
     
     The internet archive also has copies of books now in the public domain and those can be downloaded without handcuffs.
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     uis (uis@pone.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 17:52:31 JST uis

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     Wasn't entire lawsuit about not having DRM?

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     DJ, NYC Carpenter Guildmaster (danieljfranco1@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 14:47:05 JST DJ, NYC Carpenter Guildmaster

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     @internetarchive
     I support this cause/your lawsuit. However, I will not intentionally, willingly give my name, email address, and or any other info to Change.org again/any more.

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