Well they have no reason to delete them as they “own” the copy they have. They just need to take them offline until they get through the appeal or lose and have to keep them on a p2p torrent aspect instead of through their site. That sucks
Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hopefully they have an offline backup in storage somewhere for when the current shitshow ends
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 4 months ago
(Unplugs external drive)
“I deleted them.”
“You deleted all of them?”
“Yep, not on the website anymore. See.”
“Ok… Good… But I’m watching you.”