At the start of the pandemic when libraries were closed during lockdowns, the Internet Archive temporarily allowed users to loan books unrestricted (usually only a few people can check out a book at a time). Some book publishers took issue with this and sued them for mass copyright infringement and won. The Internet Archive is going to appeal the judgement.

Here’s the statement from the archive team.

  • Black AOC
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    211 year ago

    With this decision, I’ve opted to start Library Genesis-ing just about any book I need from here on. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

    • Yiazmat
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      121 year ago

      when I was in college I had a lot of professors who would just email the whole class a .pdf of the required book because of how expensive textbooks are lol. Shout out to one specific professor who even sent me everything he had ever published in his career so I wouldn’t have to pay to read them when I was working on a related project

      • @Franfran2424
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        61 year ago

        Authors can actually share their content for free iirc, Maybe only privately, actually.

        If you ask any author for a copy of their paper, they often share it if they have time for it,

  • @redtea
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    201 year ago

    Librarians of the Caribbean: Curse of the ©rackenright.

  • @big_spoon
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    51 year ago

    well…this is the happening that will make piracy great again…all hail p2p!

  • @lxvi
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    1 year ago

    If you buy a digital book you should rip it and share it.