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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter (walledculture.org)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The "middle ground" is for publishers to back the fuck off and let libraries do their goddamn jobs.

Why is that position in the middle? Because the extreme position is that the publishers have broken the social contract -- which was for Congress to grant them the privilege of a temporary monopoly in exchange for enriching the Public Domain in the long run -- and thus no longer deserve to have copyrights at all.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Digital is a completely different paradigm. If an online library has unlimited copies of a book, why would anyone buy it? New books won’t be written is no one pays for them.