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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:16 JST Rusty Crab
   hot take: piracy is based but it is incomprehensible to me how anyone thought this wasn't against the law
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:12 JST Pawlicker

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     @PunishedD @RustyCrab @sneeden speaking of archive.org there's a huge happening apparently some guy found a BBS backup tape full of scene releases of old windows/DOS betas and they're being dumped on IA.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:13 JST Rusty Crab

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     @PurpCat @sneeden I don't know the details of the case but I imagine it probably had something to do with the fact that libraries are state sanctioned explicitly. Do libraries normally have to work out deals with the publishers or was IA just grabbing random shit and lending it?
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:13 JST PunishedD

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     @RustyCrab @PurpCat @sneeden Libraries and archives have explicit carveouts to copyright. IA basically said "yo we're a library" and started lending out virtual copies of books, a similar system to what actual libraries do. The lawsuit said the organization doesn't meet the traditional definition of a library, courts agreed, so they don't get the copyright and virtual lending rights.
     
     I think they're still recognized as a proper archive though, or it hasn't been challenged hard in court yet.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:14 JST Pawlicker

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     @RustyCrab @sneeden just adobe shit DRM that is easy to crack
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     Edward Sneeden (sneeden@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:15 JST Edward Sneeden

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     @RustyCrab i dunno, the system they had in place worked like a library but digital. They encrypted the books and also restricted access according to availability. That said, their system is shitty and inefficient compared to piracy.
     
     Those who stick to play by the rules of a broken game stay losing as always
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:52:15 JST Rusty Crab

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     @sneeden could you not just screenshot the books? Were they using widevine or something?
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 02:53:59 JST 

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     @PurpCat @RustyCrab @sneeden @PunishedD This one?
     https://archive.org/details/@slipstream_rol
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:46:20 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint @RustyCrab @sneeden @PunishedD one poster, it's spread across multiple accounts.
     Overdoze (one of the 86box devs) is posting some too. There's a whole group of nerds dumping this shit on Discord digging through a 500gb tape dump.
     https://archive.org/details/winnt31-347-orig
     https://archive.org/details/@oofroblox
     https://archive.org/details/CHICAGO_3.1.07200022
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:47:53 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint @PunishedD @RustyCrab @sneeden for context this is just some of the shit that's been found from this dump alone, aside from windows 1.x stuff, MS-DOS 4 Multitasking, and more.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:48:32 JST 

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     @PurpCat @RustyCrab @sneeden @PunishedD ReflectiaX on suicide watch.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:49:33 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint @RustyCrab @sneeden @PunishedD yeah most of this shit is way before longhorn but there are some gems in there like a windows 95 beta so old, people mistook it as a WFW 3.11 beta back in the day
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:49:48 JST iced depresso

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     @PurpCat @RustyCrab @sneeden @SockPuppet @PunishedD IA also tagged the digital copies and had a physical one in a shelf, with DRM added to track lending. basically like real online libraries do, they just didn't get licenses before doing it :ablobcatgooglytenor:
     
     though i saw some of these book scanners back in the day. hobbyists started doing it, rigging canon cameras with magic lantern and all that.
     
     nowadays you can buy some chinese rigs for this off amazon (lmao)
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:49:49 JST Pawlicker

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     @SockPuppet @RustyCrab @sneeden @PunishedD IA actually doesn't do this. IA will actually scan books you mail them and put them in the database.
     
     This isn't a joke. None of their shit is scraped. They have a high end setup using mirrorless cameras and a special machine they've made to do it, sometimes they will send books to China even to do it.
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     SokPuppet (sockpuppet@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:49:50 JST SokPuppet

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     @PunishedD @PurpCat @RustyCrab @sneeden I mostly use Anna's Archive if I'm looking for a book. It's the entire database is a large torent consisting of a mirror of various shadow libraries. For sites like IA it use a scraper for "digital lending" books.