Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit.

  Knowledge is just one casualty.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scarcity is money and if there is no scarcity laws will be bought to to artificially create said scarcity.

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• Zacryon@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

  However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That depends on where you live.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And my library doesn’t have every book I want to read.

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    • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That depends on where you live.

      Yes, I know. That’s why I said:

      However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.

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      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s also a corrupt cop

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Libraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don’t really has anything but the more famous books.

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    • Akrenion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well.

      They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, but that doesn’t change the fact that specific books can be hard to find. Libraries are great, but they don’t solve the problem IA solves.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i would fuck with public libraries if they had stocks of educational material, as well as communal spaces, which they generally do so.

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  • Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC’s bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s also a corrupt cop, but I repeat myself.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

    actually blatantly wrong, public libraries are slowly dying and losing funding.

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